Friday morning a few of us spent the morning making a cake. It took 4 times the normal amount of cake, but in a few short hours we had created a Mt. of Purgatory cake for John. We gave it to him on his birthday Saturday and he was overjoyed.
There's a story behind it, don't worry. We don't just make cakes on random subjects involving purgation... In the first class in September, John was my partner for our group projects. Our project was on purgatory, and in order to help us remember what happened in each canto, John wrote a little ditty. It caught on and by the end of the month, everyone knew the Dante song. So in light of that, John's birthday cake was a 7 layer cake, each level holding a little flag, one for each of the 7 deadly sins. There were also two little pirate-looking figures for Dante and Virgil and a tree on top. It was pretty awesome. I'll post a picture when I have one.
Halloween was yesterday, and of course, we all dressed up. Carissa and I originally thought about bringing back our 80s costumes, but Kate gave us a much better idea. We decided to dress up as Sergiy and Angela (a couple in our group). I was Sergiy and Carissa was Angela. We may or may not have snuck into their rooms and stolen some of their clothes for that costume.... Carissa even fashioned a small hoop earring for Angie's nose ring. It was pretty impressive.
We went to dinner dressed in our costumes, and of course got a lot of inquisitive looks. Halloween isn't really big in Italy. Hannah dressed as Leonardo, the waiter at the restaurant, which of course he loved.
After dinner, we had a little party. We got mulled apple cider, raisin bread, and apple pie, had a dance party and enjoyed a showing of Carissa's and my music video that we made at the beginning of the semester (on the big screen of course). Carissa, Garrett and I finished the evening off with a viewing of Vampire Diaries (appropriate for the holiday).
I do believe I consumed more sugar yesterday than I had during the entire two months previous. But it was a lot of fun.
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