Experience Blog: Una Festa

Today we all took a cooking class in the hills of Cefalu’. Nino and company showed us a true Italian feast as we spent hours preparing and eating multiple dishes. The amount of care put into each dish made it truly seem like an art form. No shortcuts were taken as we individually crafted each…

Posted by socrates on May 17, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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La casetta

pic.twitter.com/FCooqiib5r  Today after departing from Cefalu we ventured into the Sicilian countryside in the mountains where we took part in a three course feast with the residents of a beautiful casetta in the hills. The house was equipped with a rather large garden where the owners grew the majority of their vegetables to cook in…

Posted by michaelp on May 17, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Villa Romana de Casale and the Valley of the Temples

On Sunday, we traveled to the western part of Sicily to visit Villa Romana de Casale near Piazza Armerina and the temples at Agrigento. The villa was enormous, boasting around 3,500 square meters of remarkably well preserved mosaics. The mosaics were beautiful and extremely intricate, each telling a different story to observers. My favorite mosaic…

Posted by Caroline Powers on May 17, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Mass and Art at the Cathedral-Basilica

One experience of this past week was visiting the Cathedral in Piazza Duomo for Saturday evening mass, and then visiting it again in a tour with Vittoria. The mass was something I found particularly noteworthy, especially the subtle differences between the mass here and that of my parish back home. Hearing mass in a different…

Posted by Izzy Lewis on May 17, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Seeing the World in Photographs

Paintings of Cefalù done by a local artist, in the sand at the beach I see the world in pictures. When my eyes fall on a scene, I immediately frame a photo. I crop edges and play with colors and imagine adjusting the lighting. Our eyes work like cameras, with the power to change aperture, shutter…

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Cefalu Cooking Demonstration

On Wednesday, we took a bus into the mountains by Cefalu to watch and participate in a professional cooking demonstration. The chef prepared four courses for us all, mostly using his home’s outdoor kitchen – first, two different types of arancini rice balls, with one filled with eggplant and cheese and the other Bolognese sauce….

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on May 17, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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A Walking Tour of Cefalù

Our walking tour of Cefalù with Vittoria began at Piazza Garibaldi, one of the main squares in town that has many small restaurants, a clock tower, and a bank, among other things. The clock tower is the most interesting building in the Piazza, as it still has large stones as a part of its infrastructure that…

Posted by matthewd on May 17, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Tourism as an Industry

During our walking tour of Cefalu, we discussed how tourism is making prices rise for the locals. As I walk down the streets to class, or even when I look down from our balcony, I can see little shops selling touristy goods such as mugs and magnets. As you can see, the walk from the…

Posted by annam on May 17, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Bernstein Blog #3: Navigating Communication When You Come to Sicily Not Knowing a Lick of Italian

When I first heard that I was admitted to this maymester, I decided that I was going to teach myself Italian using Duolinguo, a free language app. Long story short, I was not disciplined and didn’t have enough time in my busy schedule to teach myself a new language. I knew this would be a…

Posted by alexb on May 17, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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A Tale of Temples and Pizza

Experience Blog 2 Last Sunday brought us all across the island, first heading to the interior to see Piazza Armerina and then to the southern coast to Agrigento. These sites would give us a look at how Romans played a role in Sicilian life while also show how they could preserve Greek temples. At first,…

Posted by evan on May 17, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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