Alla Casa Italiana

Yesterday I went to a dinner at the Italian House at my school (What's an Italian house, you ask? Well, at my school there is a house for almost every language taught. People who take the language can live in the house, and there is always a TA who is from the country the language is spoken (ex. in the Italian house there's a guy from Italy). They generally only speak that language in the house. Each house has a "coffee hour" type thing (or at least I think so. At the French, Spanish and Italian houses they do at least). They occasionally sponsor special things like the Picnic at the French House and movies). They (the people who live at the house) served hand-made pasta and it was REALLY good! They made gnocchi with cheese sauce, gnocchi with meat sauce, pumpkin tortellini-like things in sage & butter sauce. They also had delicious appetizers: sliced pears w/ honey & walnuts, slices of parmesan cheese, bruschetta, and prosciutto & cantaloupe). It's a small house - not enough space for everyone to have personal space (at least, in my opinion).