The Meeting Grounds for the Fangirl Army

[Athos]

You first need to make the pasta base. My grandma had made it the night before, so I didn't see how it was done exactly. I think she used an egg, flour and water with a few other things. Once you have that, you put it through a pasta machine. My grandma has the old hand cranking one, so you feed it through again and again until the sheet becomes really thin. Then, depending on what pasta noodle you want, you feed it through the machine again. Then you sprinkle the noodles with flour to prevent sticking from other noodles. Then you dump them in boiling water with a tablespoon of olive oil. Then my grandma grabs a can of tomato sauce and adds some garlic, meatballs and Italian sausage and let's them cook.

[Cloud Leonhart]

Sounds like a lotta work. Does it taste better than buying it from the store?

[Athos]

Yeah. We do the same thing here in my family, but we use store bought since we don't have the time to make it from scratch. Either way, it's still pretty good. I love it when my grandma (I call her that even though she is my great grandmother) flies out here because she'll cook pizza and cream puff cake. I try to persuade her to make bread sticks sometimes.

[Cloud Leonhart]

How does her pizza taste?

[Pink Supervisor|EL]

mmm pizza

[Athos]

It's really good. I love it, and can never get enough of it.

[Cloud Leonhart]

Argh, I want sommmmeeeee. XD Does your granny have a restaurant?

[Athos]

XD Nope. She's a little old lady who lives in a special house that was designed back in World War II. It was made out of other materials since the supplies were cut short for war. I have an great uncle who is a full blood Italian. I remember when I went over to his house. He made us a huge breakfast...Eggs, bacon, sausage, French toast, pancakes, the whole nine yards! His golden rule was: "Get up and get it yourself." Now that I think about it though my family did used to own a wedding cake company.

[Cloud Leonhart]

"Used to"? What happened to it?

[Athos]

They sold it I think. You could never believe some of the things that they could make. I love my family. I still which my great grandmother's father was still around though. He made his own wine in the basement. He grew everything to feed his family. He also cobbled shoes and made them (which I find very funny since my dad's side of the family has the german last name for "one who makes shoes," and on my mother's side that is what her great great grand pappy did. He would always give free wine to police officers, and other people like that. My great grandma always told me that everyone went to him to fix something. When the war broke out, he made shoes for the servicemen.

[Cloud Leonhart]

Sounds like your family's history is very interesting. Wish I could say the same about mine. XD

[Athos]

I only thought that story was interesting. I also like to hear the story of when my dad's grandparents had fled from Portugal. My great grandfather came here to dodge the draft in his country...I could have been trilingual by now if it wasn't for him teasing my grandma about how to speak Portuguese. Oh well. I plan on taking Latin next semester.

[Cloud Leonhart]

Trilingual? You already know two languages?

[Athos]

No. XD I meant that since he hindered my grandmother from speaking Portuguese. My grandmother would have spoken Portuguese to me as a baby, and as a result I would have learned to speak it. My mom would just speak English to that's two already. Then in high school I did Spanish. Spanish isn't much different from Portuguese.

[Cloud Leonhart]

Ah...so you can learn more than one language as a baby?

[Athos]

Yup. In fact, studies show that kids in lower grade levels in grade school, are more susceptible to learning a second language. It is also much easier to learn, as opposed to learning it in high school and college. Thats why when I have a kid,
I want someone who speak to him or her in Chinese or another language. If I get really good with Latin I would speak it to him. Latin is the root of most languages.