Authentic Italian Cooking

Every Tuesday night my school offers and Italian cooking class, where a chef from a restaurant near campus comes to teach a group a few dishes. It's the owner of the restaurant I mentioned my first week with the 10euro deal where I had the best bean soup of my life. Andrea was his name and he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met an a group of 7 of us learned how to cook a four course meal. (Apparently it's normally a 3 course meal, but since Andrea looked at the list of names this morning and saw there were 3 guys in the class he did an extra course since normally he's the only guy with 7 girls). We divided and conquered the meal and in 2 hours were able to sit down to the most amazing meal I've probably ever had.
We learned to make carbonara (a traditional dish in Rome, and he also did a vegetarian version with zucchini), a spinach dish with a peppered pork meat I don't know what it was that also had pine nuts and raisins... sounds weird but may have been my favorite dish, a beef dish that was thin pieces similar to flank steak in a sauce with tomatoes and arugula and stuff, and then the dish that I did most of was a pear and chocolate souffle. As you can probably guess I'm racing the clock till I can't fight the food coma anymore because I'm stuffed. He even brought to-go boxes so we'd have lunch for tomorrow.
I can put pictures up later, he took a ton of us doing stuff so we would have them and he will also send us all the recipes so that we can make all the dishes for ourselves. I had so much fun I'll probably hit up student life tomorrow to try to sign up for another class and gabby and I have already decided we'll be heading back to his restaurant soon to support him and eat his amazing food. Alright well my food baby is of epic proportions so I'm off to type out my italian paper, hit the sack and meet with the police tomorrow to get my permit to stay!