First, I would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter! Here, we got out of school on Wednesday. In fact, for me, Wednesday wasn't really even a school day. We had the first hour and a half of school. Although it was technically school, we all decided to have a party instead. Party means that people bring food (mainly sweets) and drinks. Since it was for Easter, we had a large Easter egg to open. For Easter, there are large hollow chocolate eggs with surprises inside. I must say that I am a huge fan! Why don't we have things like this? :) Anyway, after school, there was a mass organized for the students of my school. It wasn't obligatory, but I went anyway. It was interesting. Mainly, the students followed everything in the service, but they also carried on their own side conversations. After the service, we walked around and wished everyone we knew a Happy Easter. For a couple hours after that, I was walking around Messina with a couple of friends. We didn't really do anything but go into stores and look around. It was fun though. Today has been a long and tiring day. The day started with a lack of sleep due to our dog that is currently sleeping in our (my sister and I) room. During the night, he was chewing on everything, whining, trying to get our attention...typical dog stuff. We all got up to eat breakfast and at 10, we went to mass. Instead of following the mass, my sister, brother, and I went on a little walk. After the mass, we returned home to prepare the enormous Easter lunch. We had guests coming that were bringing the pasta, but we had to cook the meat, cut up fruit, and make desserts. We made all kinds of things...eggplant parmigiano, lamb, sausages, strawberries and bananas, chocolate flan, and I made a pumpkin pie. The problem was that the pumpkin pie turned out pretty bad. There wasn't anything that I could use to make the pumpkin into a paste and we didn't have any ginger. It turned out to have an ok flavor, a terrible texture, and resembled nothing to a real pumpkin pie. I made one at New Years and it turned out perfectly...this means that it wasn't my fault. I did everything I could. After we ate, my sister and I came into our room to nap off some of the food. Now, we are all just relaxing. Tomorrow, is Pasquetta. It is another day of celebration, but of less importance and is generally spent among friends and family instead of just family.
