Referring to your requests I'll tell more about my job and house in my next post.
About my last week-end: Friday was the last
work day of Erin. She is the one who remembers me Ansa -my German room mate who left after 3 months- and like Ansa, Erin's gonna leave after a few time I met her.On Friday night Erin and I organized a great goodbye-party at Florian's and my place at Lucky Lane. During the lunch break of the same day I made the dough for 10 pizzas which resulted in what you can see in the pictures below. Everybody was delighted... Probably I don't need to explain the difference between an American and an Italian pizza. The first one is thicker and fatter (they put every ingredient in great quantity on it). The second one is simply the best:)
In the evening about 30 people reached our place -most of them working at NOLS. The party was very funny; I guess because of the will to have fun, the Italian food, the beer and last but not least the cool people! We even danced in our living room which was something I've never experienced at parties since I'm here.
"Great Party! Awesome pizza!" said people leaving. Thank you everybody for coming guys! After the party it was sad to tell Erin goodbye but I'm very happy and lucky to have met her.
The following day Florian, Walter, Adam and myself left for another adventure: Green River Lakes, WY. It's an area about 3-4 hours North-West from Lander which is special for the amazing lake and rivers. About 18 miles before coming to destination there were warnings about grizzly bears which are enormous animals particularly known for their greediness. On the way you see antelopes, cows, bulls, eagles, squirrels, llamas, horses, goslings... (Un)fortunately I could see no bears, though.
As we came to the campground it was totally warm so we decided to go swimming in the lake. As I put my feet in the water I realized the temperature is not exactly the same of a Baggersee near Karlsruhe: it was ice cold! I felt like my blood circulation could stop. Adam was the only one who could dive for a second! Afterwards we went hiking on a trail around the lake and then up to the mountain to a natural stone bridge. About 16 Km of a heaven looking landscape which was all worth of it.Back to our campsite the guys cooked some hotdogs and I dealt with rigatoni with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese (which is not the same as the Italian mozzarella of course). They were delicious:P As dessert we had "smore's" which is very typical if you are in front of a campfire
here. It's a snack that you obtain putting a
marshmallow and a piece of chocolate between 2 thin honey cakes.... and since Latins said "Dulcis in Fundo" I'm gonna come to the end for today.
Before that I would like to thank the ones for e-mails and comments and encourage the others to let me hear about themselves.
Good night,
Antonella
