White Wines and Lots of Rain

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

                Today was nothing special. This rain is not stopping, it just keeps coming down. I stand at bus stops and had to stay as far away from the curb just to make sure I don’t get splashed as the cars drive through the large puddles accumulating.  I’ve realized I’d much rather go to school five days a week instead of taking this class.  The class isn’t bad, it’s just that it just such a large amount of time to sit in a classroom and pay attention.  Good thing I’ve never done a maymester, I would never last.  I got to class on time, most people arrive late.  The transportation is just so hard in the morning, half the time the buses or trains you need to get on are full and it’s at least another ten minutes for the next one to come.   The first half of wine class was horrible.  It was 42 slides of graphs all talking about consumption, types of wines Australia makes, just any possible kind of data one can gather about wine in Australia.  I don’t know how I sat through it.  Next weeks test will be hard cause I hope I don’t need to know too many values on those charts.  We got our lunch break and I headed out to greenwood plaza and as I was walking in I was handed a 2 dollars off at three different restaurants in the plaza.  I went to one of them and got a chicken and avocado crepe. It was pretty good, the 2 dollars off made it taste even better, making it more reasonably priced.  I would have preferred the crepe to be a little more crispy but it was still satisfying. 

                Back to the second half of class we went on to try 9 wines today.  The first two were two types of Rieslings. The first one was a German Riesling Traminer and the second one was a French Riesling.  They were both good, I enjoyed them.  Then we tried a Pinot Grigio, Pinot Gris, Chenin Blan, Gewurztraminer, Verdelho, and Viognier.  The last wine we tried a girl in my class spent a considerable amount of money and bought a nice white wine.  I didn’t prefer it but my professor said it was good, I trust him I’m sure it’s just an acquired taste. People were getting so loud and talkative by the end of class and we ran late.  Of course once we finally were allowed to leave it was still raining and it continued to rain until I went to bed. 

17 bottles of wine, 17 students in the class