Spaghetti alle Vongole

Today my signora made spaghetti alle vongole which is spaghetti with clams. It was sooo good. I love Italy, people making spaghetti with clams on a Tuesday just because it's the thing to do. She told me how to make it too: while the pasta is cooking, put extra virgin olive oil, garlic and pepperincini or something else picante in a pan and then put the pre-soaked clams in the pan too and while the spaghetti's cooking, the clams will cook too. Then put it all in a bowl with some freshly chopped parsley. Dinner was all kinds of good tonight.

Tomorrow I have my final composition in my intensive italian class. I'm going to try to do well on it because I would really like to get an A in this class. I'm doing well so far though, I got a 14 out of 15 on the written portion and a 9 out of 10 on the oral portion for the last exam. So hopefully I can get a perfect score on the final and pull out an A. We'll see!

I'm really quite excited to go to Greece this Friday. I'm going to be staying there for 8 days and visiting Athens, Santorini and Mikonos. So I obviously won't be blogging while I'm gone but I will definitely prepare another monster post when I get back. Alright, going to be early tonight, ciao!

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