January 28th, 2011
Even though I didn’t go to bed til the crack of the dawn, for some reason I woke up at 10:30! But it worked out well because me and my roommates wanted to go shopping all weekend to catch the end of the sales because the start of February ends the month-long “black Friday” here. We walked all over, but we couldn’t really find the type of stores we were looking for. I think we were too far into the richer/nicer part of town so things were either out of our price range, or they were these department stores that were so huge and overwhelming. We decided to just come back home even though nobody ended up buying anything because the girls that were sick started to not feel well, and those of us that went out and were up late started to get tired and cranky. I tried to lay down and take a nap, but realize I really wasn’t tired. So while the girls were either sleeping or in Marissa’s case skypeing with her cousin, I decided to clean. I swept and mopped the entire apartment! I was amazed by how much dirt and dust/hair balls were on the floor! And when I mopped I emptied by bucket halfway through the apartment and there was soil lining the entire bottom of the bucket…GROSS! I honestly should have emptied the bucket after each room. However, once all of the girls started walking around on the clean floors they could tell the difference and thanked me over and over and over again because now their socks aren’t black on the bottom from walking from their bedroom to the bathroom. I thought mopping was a good idea not only because you could feel dirt under your feet as you walked around it was disgusting, but also because I’m hoping it will make a difference in the health of my deathly sick roommates!
By the time I got done cleaning everyone woke up and was ready for dinner. I made some pomadoro rice from a packet and was afraid I making it wrong because I couldn’t read the instructions on the back..but I must say it turned out mighty yummy! I also accompanied it with a couple scrambled eggs because I thought eating only tomato-y rice for dinner was too plain. Marissa tells me she loves watching me cook dinner because she said my choices and combinations of food are so unusual and unpredictable, but I know she’s just jealous :]
Once again we invited people to come over to our apartment, and once again nobody came. However, when we invited people to come over we invited not only kids from school, but also the girl Kaila that we met in Pisa. And unlike all of the lame kids we go to school with, Kaila still wanted to come over even though I told her it would just be her and us. But she lives with a girl who never does anything but read, so she was more than happy to come over and just chat with us. She’s a really awesome girl and I think we should start inviting her to like every single thing we do and introduce her to the kids we know from school because it sounds like she’s so lonely and does everything by herself. We ended up going to get a little thing of gelato from the place near our apartment where I got the peanut butter gelato. This time I got 3 flavors: peanut butter, nutella, and ambrosia. The ambrosia was an experimental flavor which was yogurt with cinnamon and honey…it was sooo yummy, so I hope they will keep it as a flavor and not toss it to the curb! I don’t think I could eat a whole cup of ambrosia because it has a really strong flavor, but it was definitely good mixed with other flavors. We came back the apartment and talked for a while longer. Kaila told us she has so much excess crap at her apartment that we are free to use if we need it, which I’m definitely going to take her up on because she has EXTRA PILLOWS! And a lot of them she said! Yes! Hopefully that will mean I will stop having an achy body and neck when I wake up in the morning. All of a sudden we realized it was around midnight and she said she better get going because in the morning she was going to Chianti on a wine tasting tour kinda like what we did. I hope she will have as much fun as we did, and I hope to see her again soon (especially to get a pillow)!
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