Excerpt from an e-mail I wrote to Zach, since most of you have no clue where I am. More to come, from my journal:


I'm in Sardegna (Sardinia to you). Margaret is sleeping. We've been here since Sunday and we leave Saturday night. We're in a place called "Alghero" on the north west side of the island. We were going to come with Rachid, Max, and Marcus, and one of Rachid's friends (other kids from the school) but they got caught drinking and were suspended, so Margaret and I cancelled the reservation for our other, larger place (which was just down the block, we found it yesterday) and sent an e-mail to this guy Fabio. He's renting us the place for €350 this week, but he invited us to come stay for free in May if we can get our Visas extended. I would, except for that I have to get home to Graduate. You're coming to my graduation right? It's at 9ish AM on the 26th of May. Get out of school (or is that a sunday?). Anyhow, Fabio is awesome. On tuesday he took us to this beach, "La Speranza" (The Hope) and he was going to surf while we chilled at the beach. The waves were too small and the wind was too cold, and so instead he took us out to lunch. We're cooking. To save money, we're not eating out (the food here is all fish anyways, which neither of us eats). The first night I made a simple red sauce-- it had a bit of a kick (way too much pepper). The next night I successfully made risotto milanese (cheesy), out of a packet however. The next day was frozen pizza and we tried carabonara twice. The first time we used to much egg, not enough milk, and not enough heat, resulting in a bowl of raw eggs with some pasta in it, like an uncooked omlette. Last night we tried again but the power went out half way through. The stove still worked, so we lit a candle and kept cooking, forgetting about the garlic bread in the electric oven. Eventually the power came back on, and so the garlic bread cooked, but the power outage had disturbed the gas supply, and so the stove went out. The end product tasted a lot like macaroni and cheese (but the garlic bread was really good).