I was able to sleep in this morning because today was a bank holiday. I got up at 10:30 and had my shower and cereal before doing a lot of accordion practice. After a while Claudio knocked on the door to say Erica was ready to make cheesecake. Ivana chipped in a bit and we made two decent cheesecakes. The only major issue we encountered was that the mascarpone in my fridge had gone off, so we were down on mascarpone by 25%. We compensated with a bit of vanilla yoghurt, but overall the cheesecakes ended up too shallow. We also made blueberries in syrup, although we over-cooked this so it was more like blueberry jam.
After an hour and a half cooking next door I returned to my flat and made a ragù sauce from the meat I bought yesterday. I put it in the fridge ready for tomorrow's dinner. It's excellent, if I may say so myself!
I popped next door again and we decided I would go and play basketball with Simone at 5:30. After watching a DVD for a while, I went with Claudio and Ivana to the basketball arena. They were going on elsewhere so dropped me off; Simone was already there. We played 2 vs. 2 with two of Simone's friends, Daniele and Valero, and I quickly discovered three things: a) I'm so unfit, b) basketball is great exercise, and c) I'm rubbish at basketball! I soon started to get the hang of it, though. We played for about two hours, by which point we were very hot and tired. Simone and I went home via the takeaway pizza place and the Chinese. At home I had a very quick shower before joining the Beltramis, Kleidi, Daniele, Valero, and later Aris, for pizza. Claudio and Simone had Chinese/Japanese. We followed it with cheesecake and blueberries, which all went down a storm.
I finished the day by talking to Stephanie on Skype.
Back to work tomorrow.
Buona notte x
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