February 14th-18th 2024

Last week was Valentine's Day on Wednesday and Francesca's Birthday on Thursday! The last half of the week was definitely more interesting than the first half. The first few days were pretty boring as they just consisted of class and hanging out. On Wednesday I had no class so I was able to get all the ingredients for our dinner and decorate our room a little which was super fun! We made cute heart shaped pizza and Giulia made with all the red veggies she could think of :) we enjoyed our little meal and Charlotte baked some yummy cookies for us with jam in the middle. Before dinner I made the dough for some donuts that I was going to fry the next morning. I didn't want Francesca to know because they were for her birthday :) I made the glaze for the donuts after dinner and then we finished the night with the Hunger Games (not super valentines themed, but it was fun to be around everyone 🥰). The next morning I woke up around 6:30 and shaped the donuts and let them rise for two hours. Lucky for me my professor had canceled my 8:30 class which meant I was actually able to make these before Francesca was out of the room and I didn't have to be up crazy early. She had told me she didn't really care for cake, but that her favorite sweet treat was donuts 🍩. I have never made donuts before so I was really nervous they wouldn't turn out. I started frying them and I was just hoping they were good. I ended up giving Francesca some from the very first batch I fried and forgot to actually try them before setting them on a plate for her 🫠. She said they were so yummy and I had tried a few after the first batch and they were the best donuts I had ever had. I think I am going to have to make them again before I leave 🤤 or for sure when I get back. It was fun to put my energy into something like this since I spend most of my time doing homework and watching gossip girl in the cold weather 🫣. Thursday night we went out to dinner at Mæxico and it was so yummy. I got shrimp tacos and they were exactly what I wanted (dare I say better than McKenzie River 🫣). Angela got a really bad tummy ache while we were there and she tried to say it was food poisoning, but no one else was getting sick 😂. We didn't do much Friday, but we had a big day on Saturday. In the morning, Katherine, Angela, Emme, Francesca, and I went to do some pottery painting (I was too embarrassed to show my creation so pictured below is outline my plate left on the table when I finished painting 😢). We had a really good time and went home to rest before our big night out. We started getting all ready around 9 which was super fun and then we started playing games and David (one of the local residents) joined in and brought all of his friends. We had a really good time, but Emme and I came home early because it was too cold outside 🥶. We also lost Francesca to some of her other friends in the process so we didn't really want to be out anymore. It was kinda funny though because Francesca came home not too long after which I did not expect, but she hasn't been feeling too well anyways. Sunday I thought I only woke up at 10 am and my watch told me I did not wake up anytime throughout the night, but today I found a picture on my phone from Sunday at 7:15 am. I had to chuckle to myself because I have no recollection of taking the picture of the gorgeous sunrise pictured below. Overall it was a really fun weekend and Francesca and I are going to see Noah Kahan on Friday night!!! I can't wait to stay tuned for those updates :)