Italian Wrap up

    FARE, the winter term class option for the 2014-2015 school year. This is an integrated Italian class that teaches us how to speak basic Italian, and how to cook popular Italian dishes. One of the multiple things taught was sanitation when creating food. This told us how to avoid cross contamination and how to keep food from spoiling or rotting. Something else that was quite useful was basic language in Italian, like the necessities of how to get by in life. These terms included how to pardon yourself to go use the bathroom, or what you would like to order at a restaurant. Overall, we were taught enough Italian to have a basic conversation. Something else that happened near the end of the class was an open restaurant event where we served food that was cooked by the students. There we're also hosts and designers for the web page that was shown off, and a demonstration on how to make taramisu. Now if you want to use Italian yourself, there are a few expression and terms that will really help you out. “Io vorrei… [name of dish]” is how you order food or even just say what you want as of that moment, and then to say “May I go to the bathroom” is just “Posso andare in bagno”. “Grazie” means “thank you”, and “prego” is “you’re welcome” as well as “please” being “por favore”. And one that’s really helpful to the curious mind is “come si dice” which asks, “how do you say”. If you can use these on appropriate occasions, then you’ll most likely be able to get by in casual situations. Yet being in Italy is much more different than just that, you also run across the different customs there. One is that if you’re going to be staying with a family, by tradition in Italy, it’s customary to eat a lot at single meals and get together with the family. Breakfasts there usually consist of sweets and is held at around 10:00am over there. Then the lunch is around 1 in the afternoon, followed up by dinner at 7:00. Different spaghetti dishes are always so common because it’s designed to allow you to eat more of it. But if you just so happen to be eating out, like at a restaurant, you should know that it’s considered rude for the check to be brought to you by a waiter, so you pay when you feel ready to pay. And with that, I conclude my experiences in the Fare eatalian class.