Today started out very early!! I got up at 6:45 and took a shower, then got ready and ate some Cookie Crisp to make it a little better that I was up that early. We went to class and it was somewhat entertaining. In the second half...which is our smaller tutorial classes...we had a quiz that was really easy. It took everyone else forever...mostly because they didn't understand the English. The rest of class we discussed emotions and how they effect your actions in an organization. It was a really interesting dicussion. We turned in our homework for this week...which was copying the stuff we had done for last class onto a different piece of paper and our homework for next week is just to write a brief discription of what we are going to write our term paper about that is due at the end of November. After class we ate lunch and picked out a couch in the student lounge for our break between classes. I got a Pepsi out of the vending machine so I could try to stay awake during our next class. We also had a discussion about the fact that if we were in Rolla we would have to be going to the career fair today and actually looking for Real Big Girl jobs cause we'd be graduating...thats kinda scary...glad we are here not there!!
We headed up to Financial Analysis and he was over 5 minutes late...its so annoying. He started class by going over the rest of the homework he didn't finish from last time. That took over half an hour. Then he started the powerpoint he was supposed to cover last week but didn't. It was sooo boring. I made a list of the stuff I needed to pack for Disneyland and what all we had to get done tomorrow before I ended up starting to fall asleep before it was finally time for our break. I went to the bathroom and then we ate the Snickers we brought with us to try to pep us up. I got out my computer to try to entertain myself during the second half of class. I talked to mom for a little bit and then he finally started class again...30 minutes after our break started. I looked at a bunch of fun recipes on the internet and played on facebook...talking to some people as they started to get up in Rolla. Morgan just wrote down the funny stuff he said during the class...her paper was full!! He ended class 10 minutes early...which is perfectly fine with us. We packed up and headed to the grocery store. I got soda, OJ, an apple, a few bannans and we got a baguette. I had to end up getting a different apple cause the guy dropped the one I had picked out when he was checking me out.
We got home in time to watch Wizards on tv and then relaxed some. I watched Friends and they are at a really good place in the series. They are all on vacation for Ross's big speech when he is in love with the black girl Joey is dating and Rachel likes Joey. Monica's hair is crazy and Phoebe gets proposed to by Mike. This was the episode that Joey and Rachel kiss. We had chicken nuggets for dinner and experimented with the sauce we had left from out spaghetti. We cut pieces of baguette and sliced them. We heated up the sauce and put some on the bread with some shreeded cheese. It was super good...kinda tasted like an itailan version of sloopy joes. I talked to some people who were getting ready for the career fair and Morgan was watching a tv show on her computer after dinnr. I was bored and my internet was being annoying so I took a shower and washed up all the dishes we had dirty. Now we are both just trying to find something to do to entertain ourselves before bed. We are gettng up at 9:30 to try to get all of our errands accomplished on our last easy day till Noveber. I'll let ya know how that goes tomorrow!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Poor Kid Mac & Cheese
Well I had this all typed and then it decided to delete itself...so here goes again
I laid in bed last night because I was tired of being on the internet and had nothing else to do. Morgan was sitting in her bed on the computer with the lights and the tv on. She asked if i wanted her to turn off the lights and they really weren't bothering me. I knew if my body wanted to go to sleep I would. I woke up in the middle of the night becuase I was cold...so i put on my covers and went right back to sleep. I fell asleep a little after 10 and had my alarm set for 10:15 this moring and was still tired when it went off. I got up though and got ready. I headed out to school all by myself. Morgan was going to come meet me for lunch but she doesn't have class till after that. I saw one of the Iowa girls at the bus stop and talked to her on the way to school.
My teacher was a little late again but that was ok with me cause it meant class would be shorter. She started out in French again and was talking so fast. I had no idea what was going on. I was almost in tears I was so frustrated! Finally I think she realized we weren't all understanding and she started saying a few things in English. Near the end of class she passed out a paper and had us listen to a CD which had a conversation on it. It was also on the paper so we could read along. She then had us practice the conversation with a friend. She came over to me and the other 2 Americans I was working with and helped us. She said she knew it was harder for us becuase they don't pronounce every sound like we do. That made me feel better about that class.
I met Morgan for lunch and then we hung out in the student lounge till her class. I stayed in there for what seemed like ever for my class just messing around on facebook and listening to my music. I also watched the Cram Session for season 3 of GREEK...which was pretty much a recap of all of season 2...and I am even more excited for season 3 now. I went to culture class and was bored out of my mind. That little crazy man teaches us absolutely nothing. He pretty much told us he can't teach us about culture becuase it's an individual experience and has to be learned through that. Whatever crazy man...He also talks non stop for the hour and a half we are with him.
We came home after class and Morgan washed up the dishes so we would have room to make dinner tonight. Using 3 pans for our spaghetti takes up a lot of room in our little kitchen. I did my homework for class tomorrow morning and talked to a few people on facebook. Then I decided to start dinner. We were going to try to make macaroni tonight. I boiled the noodles and then started the milk with a little butter in it. I waited till it started simmering a little. We had bought the only normal type of cheese we saw and that was cheddar...but it was in slices like for sandwhiches. I cut them into fourths and added them slowly making sure they all melted. I drained the noodles and we were ready to go. We didn't add the sauce to the noodles untill we had them in our bowls cause I wasn't sure if we had enough for the whole pan. We ate as much as we could since it wasn't something we could save and we were both stuffed. We had to rinse out the cheese sauce pan with cold water since Morgan used all the hot to wash the dishes earlier. Sadly we still dont have any hot water and I wanted to take a shower. Guess I'll be getting up even earlier in the morning before class to shower. Speaking of that...I better study a little for my quiz in the morning and then head to bed.
I laid in bed last night because I was tired of being on the internet and had nothing else to do. Morgan was sitting in her bed on the computer with the lights and the tv on. She asked if i wanted her to turn off the lights and they really weren't bothering me. I knew if my body wanted to go to sleep I would. I woke up in the middle of the night becuase I was cold...so i put on my covers and went right back to sleep. I fell asleep a little after 10 and had my alarm set for 10:15 this moring and was still tired when it went off. I got up though and got ready. I headed out to school all by myself. Morgan was going to come meet me for lunch but she doesn't have class till after that. I saw one of the Iowa girls at the bus stop and talked to her on the way to school.
My teacher was a little late again but that was ok with me cause it meant class would be shorter. She started out in French again and was talking so fast. I had no idea what was going on. I was almost in tears I was so frustrated! Finally I think she realized we weren't all understanding and she started saying a few things in English. Near the end of class she passed out a paper and had us listen to a CD which had a conversation on it. It was also on the paper so we could read along. She then had us practice the conversation with a friend. She came over to me and the other 2 Americans I was working with and helped us. She said she knew it was harder for us becuase they don't pronounce every sound like we do. That made me feel better about that class.
I met Morgan for lunch and then we hung out in the student lounge till her class. I stayed in there for what seemed like ever for my class just messing around on facebook and listening to my music. I also watched the Cram Session for season 3 of GREEK...which was pretty much a recap of all of season 2...and I am even more excited for season 3 now. I went to culture class and was bored out of my mind. That little crazy man teaches us absolutely nothing. He pretty much told us he can't teach us about culture becuase it's an individual experience and has to be learned through that. Whatever crazy man...He also talks non stop for the hour and a half we are with him.
We came home after class and Morgan washed up the dishes so we would have room to make dinner tonight. Using 3 pans for our spaghetti takes up a lot of room in our little kitchen. I did my homework for class tomorrow morning and talked to a few people on facebook. Then I decided to start dinner. We were going to try to make macaroni tonight. I boiled the noodles and then started the milk with a little butter in it. I waited till it started simmering a little. We had bought the only normal type of cheese we saw and that was cheddar...but it was in slices like for sandwhiches. I cut them into fourths and added them slowly making sure they all melted. I drained the noodles and we were ready to go. We didn't add the sauce to the noodles untill we had them in our bowls cause I wasn't sure if we had enough for the whole pan. We ate as much as we could since it wasn't something we could save and we were both stuffed. We had to rinse out the cheese sauce pan with cold water since Morgan used all the hot to wash the dishes earlier. Sadly we still dont have any hot water and I wanted to take a shower. Guess I'll be getting up even earlier in the morning before class to shower. Speaking of that...I better study a little for my quiz in the morning and then head to bed.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Relaxing Day at the Park
We set our alarms so that we wouldn't sleep away the day today. We had checked the weather and decided we wanted to go to a park today. Our alarms went off at 10 and Morgan asked for 30 more minutes cause she hadnt' fallen asleep for a long time after we got in bed last night. When the alarm went off again...I said that that 30 minutes had just made me more tired...and we woke up at noon. We are awesome at that!! We got up and each had a bowl of our amazing Cookie Crisp before getting ready and heading out to the park. I made sure to wear my Ankiel Jersey shirt...they first t-shirt I have worn since we got there I might add...since the Cardinals Clinched the NL Central last night!!!
We took the bus out to park and weren't quite sure what to expect. We had looked at it on the internet but you never know. We walked around on the trals they had laid out. We saw a pond with a ton of ducks in it...a man was riding his bike with his dog, no one keeps there dog on a leash here, and it jumped into the pond and splashed around then got back out and caught up with him. There were several diferent obstacle type things along the trail that had signs next to them about how to do the task. We decided it was kind of like a circut to perform while running or walking the trail. We played on a few of them cause they were kinda fun. Through out the park there were big grassy fields were people were playing ball, picnicing, or just enjoying the sun. When we got back to where we had started on the trail we went into the grassy area that was right there and sat down on a bench in the shade and watched some little boys playing soccer. It was hilarious. We were getting a little hungry so we headed back out and caught the bus home. We finished up our chocolate ice cream cause it was starting to get a little frost bitten and then continued to relax. Morgan was watching some show on her computer so I watched the second Dirty Dancing on mine. It's not quite as good as the first one but I like it.
Morgan jumped in the shower once our movies were over and then we started dinner. We were going to make spaghetti. I browned up the rest of our groundbeef from our tacos and added it to the sauce we had bought. I boiled some of the noodles we bought and topped it all with a little bit of the shredded cheese be had for the tacos. It made some delicious pasta. We cleaned up some of the dishes and then I took a shower. We're just kind of hanging out right now getting ready for our last regular week with no travel. I'll make sure to get the pics of our decorations and the park up tomorrow when I'm at school.
We took the bus out to park and weren't quite sure what to expect. We had looked at it on the internet but you never know. We walked around on the trals they had laid out. We saw a pond with a ton of ducks in it...a man was riding his bike with his dog, no one keeps there dog on a leash here, and it jumped into the pond and splashed around then got back out and caught up with him. There were several diferent obstacle type things along the trail that had signs next to them about how to do the task. We decided it was kind of like a circut to perform while running or walking the trail. We played on a few of them cause they were kinda fun. Through out the park there were big grassy fields were people were playing ball, picnicing, or just enjoying the sun. When we got back to where we had started on the trail we went into the grassy area that was right there and sat down on a bench in the shade and watched some little boys playing soccer. It was hilarious. We were getting a little hungry so we headed back out and caught the bus home. We finished up our chocolate ice cream cause it was starting to get a little frost bitten and then continued to relax. Morgan was watching some show on her computer so I watched the second Dirty Dancing on mine. It's not quite as good as the first one but I like it.
Morgan jumped in the shower once our movies were over and then we started dinner. We were going to make spaghetti. I browned up the rest of our groundbeef from our tacos and added it to the sauce we had bought. I boiled some of the noodles we bought and topped it all with a little bit of the shredded cheese be had for the tacos. It made some delicious pasta. We cleaned up some of the dishes and then I took a shower. We're just kind of hanging out right now getting ready for our last regular week with no travel. I'll make sure to get the pics of our decorations and the park up tomorrow when I'm at school.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
A Day of Planning
We woke up at noon today and got started on the day. I talked to mom and dad on skype for a bit before dad headed off to breakfast with grandpa and work and mom was going to Blitz day with Ms. Pam. After we ate our chocolate crosiants from the grocery store we started researching and planning for our Disneyland Trip and the rest of October. Morgan focused on Disneyland cause it's her specialty and I looked through the packets that came with our train passes as well as the internet trying to find the best deals for us. We pretty much decided we are going to go practice taking the metro to the train station...this is what we have to do to get there Friday morning so early...on Wednesday and ask about prices for the rest of the month. We have all the dates picked out for when and where we want to go we just need to finalize everything. Once it's set I'll put up a schedule so yall can know where we will be.
I went downstairs around 4 to check on my card and package mom sent me...my card was finally here but the front desk apparently closes at 1 on Saturdays and wont be open tomorrow. Guess i'll wait till Monday for my package. Maybe my other card from mom and my letter from Amy will get here then too. Morgan is also waiting for a package so hopefully we'll some presents this week. We used some of our extra tortillas and cheese to make quesidillas for dinner tonight. We also enjoyed a twix we bought at store to reward ourselves for dealing with the internet al day. Thats about all I for today...I'll write more tomorrow!!!
I went downstairs around 4 to check on my card and package mom sent me...my card was finally here but the front desk apparently closes at 1 on Saturdays and wont be open tomorrow. Guess i'll wait till Monday for my package. Maybe my other card from mom and my letter from Amy will get here then too. Morgan is also waiting for a package so hopefully we'll some presents this week. We used some of our extra tortillas and cheese to make quesidillas for dinner tonight. We also enjoyed a twix we bought at store to reward ourselves for dealing with the internet al day. Thats about all I for today...I'll write more tomorrow!!!
Friday, September 25, 2009
2 Grocery Stores and 2 Bad Buses
I could not fall asleep for anything last night. I was awake till almost 5 this morning. I couldn't fall get to sleep so I got up and grabbed my computer and watched the last 3 episodes I had downloaded from the last season of GREEK. They were amazing...I cannot wait to get to school Monday so I can download the new episodes from this season so far. Once those were done I still wasn't tired so at 3 am I grabbed my ipod touch and played games for a while cause my computer battery was dead. I finally just listened to my music and was able to fall alseep after a long while. I didn't wake up till 1 today and Morgan was laying in bed still. We got up and got a little stuff done around the apartment before we headed out to get some groceries. We went to MonoPrix because we needed a lot of stuff. We went up and down every aisle to get what we needed. We got stuff to make tacos and noodles to make Mac & cheese and spaghetti. We found really cheap chocolate granola bars that we are going to take with us on our travels for filling cheap food. We had decided to get another type of cereal since they had so many more coices and they had Cookie Crisp!!! We didn't see the milk we usually get and the baguettes didn't look very good so we decided to go to our normal grocery store after we dropped this stuff off at home.
The first bus we took from MonoPrix back to the main stop was super full and we couldn't sit much less move much at all. It was really hot and making us both claustrophobic, I also was carrying all our groceries in a bag and it was super heavy and there was no where to put it down. When we got off that bus there was a 4 bus which takes us home but we had to walk to it and we knew we wouldn't make it so we didn't rush or anything knowing another one would be there soon. For some reason though the bus didn't come for a long time. I ended up having to sit the bag down on the sidewalk while we waited. The bus did come and we were able to sit down this time. An extremely fat man got on the bus after us and ended up sitting in the seats...yes he took up more than one seat...behind us. He smelled absolutely awful!!! I had to act like I was wipping my nose on my jacket to be able to take a breath and then I heald it as long as I could. The lady he sat down by got up and moved and sat down very pissed off like in front of us. We both giggled to ourselves. Luckily he got off a few stops before us so we could all breath again.
We dropped our stuff off at home and put the cheese and ground beef in the fridge and headed back to the other grocery store. We bought milk and baguette and headed back home. We got back just in time to watch Wizards again! When we were going in and out so much though there were a ton of women in the lobby. They were all larger black women and had flower wreaths on their heads. We hung out at home after the stores and I read some more of my book. They are so interesting and I can't stop reading them. I have Morgan kind of interested as well cause I've been talking about them. About 7 I started dinner. I left a little of the ground beef for our spaghetti but browned the rest of it with the seasoning that came in the pack we bought. Morgan warmed up the shells and we set down with out little family dinner. We had salsa from our kit as well for our tacos and some shredded cheese. I must say our tacos were delicious!! We washed up the dishes after dinner and are both just sitting on our computers now waiting till it's late enough to go to bed. Hopefully tonight I can actually get to sleep. We don't really have anything to do this weekend but we are going to work on planning out Disneyland so we don't waste anytime!!
The first bus we took from MonoPrix back to the main stop was super full and we couldn't sit much less move much at all. It was really hot and making us both claustrophobic, I also was carrying all our groceries in a bag and it was super heavy and there was no where to put it down. When we got off that bus there was a 4 bus which takes us home but we had to walk to it and we knew we wouldn't make it so we didn't rush or anything knowing another one would be there soon. For some reason though the bus didn't come for a long time. I ended up having to sit the bag down on the sidewalk while we waited. The bus did come and we were able to sit down this time. An extremely fat man got on the bus after us and ended up sitting in the seats...yes he took up more than one seat...behind us. He smelled absolutely awful!!! I had to act like I was wipping my nose on my jacket to be able to take a breath and then I heald it as long as I could. The lady he sat down by got up and moved and sat down very pissed off like in front of us. We both giggled to ourselves. Luckily he got off a few stops before us so we could all breath again.
We dropped our stuff off at home and put the cheese and ground beef in the fridge and headed back to the other grocery store. We bought milk and baguette and headed back home. We got back just in time to watch Wizards again! When we were going in and out so much though there were a ton of women in the lobby. They were all larger black women and had flower wreaths on their heads. We hung out at home after the stores and I read some more of my book. They are so interesting and I can't stop reading them. I have Morgan kind of interested as well cause I've been talking about them. About 7 I started dinner. I left a little of the ground beef for our spaghetti but browned the rest of it with the seasoning that came in the pack we bought. Morgan warmed up the shells and we set down with out little family dinner. We had salsa from our kit as well for our tacos and some shredded cheese. I must say our tacos were delicious!! We washed up the dishes after dinner and are both just sitting on our computers now waiting till it's late enough to go to bed. Hopefully tonight I can actually get to sleep. We don't really have anything to do this weekend but we are going to work on planning out Disneyland so we don't waste anytime!!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Super Cup!!
I woke up at 8:15 this morning to take a shower beore class since time got away from us last night. I got ready and ready while Morgan showered and got ready. We headed out to the bus stop...early enough so we wouldn't have to rush this week...and it was colder than we expected. Luckily the bus came real quick and we actually beat our teacher to class. We were the only ones there when he came and unlocked the door so he talked to us for a little bit. He is really nice. When classes started we discussed the article we had read about the Dueling Computers...it was discribing the Mac & PC commercials with the 2 guys. Some people hadn't seen it so he pulled it up on youtube and we watched a few of them. Then we discussed what impact the commercials had and it was pretty much him asking the American kids...there are like 4 in my class...about it cause we were the only ones who knew. When he started his powerpoint I had a really hard time staying awake but we finally got to our break and that helped a lot. After the break he asked what time the schedule said we got out and everyone in unison said 1 so he said that was fine and he would let us out at 1. The second half of class we spent in our groups...which we got a 4th group member...who won't speak...she's chinese. We had to make an advertisement in about 30 minutes for a very basic item. We chose the cup the original girl in our group had had her coffee in during the break. We took picture of it on her computer and while they were all dicussing a slogan i played with the picture in paint. I added arms, a face and a cape. He also had a recyling logo on is stomach. Our ad was about chosing our cup company for your vending machinebecuase it'e recyled plastic.Our teacher didnt' quite understand our ad but my little cup man was adorable.
After class we were trying to deicide if we wanted to eat at school or head home but we decided to check our emails first since we can't do that at home. When we got downstairs there was a ridiculus line for a table that was serving a few different things for free. We went on into the student lounge and were going to go back out when the line died back down. I looked back out later and the line had finally died down but they were also cleaning up the table. We decided to come home and have some cheese and crackers for lunch.
After lunch we messed around on the internet for a while and watched Wizards of Waverly Place on the Disney Break. At 5 when it was over we were both exhausted. I grabbed my book and wanted to read but i set my alarm for a little after 6 just in case. I ended up falling right asleep before I even opened my book. When i woke up I checked facebook then Morgan asked if I was hungry so we decided to make our chicken noodle soup. It was the tiniest noodles I have ever seen but it was good. I washed up all our dishes after dinner got back on my computer. I emailed mom a few times and we looked at halloween costumes again. We have decided we are going t have a halloween party next semester when we live in our own house...or at Beta Sig if we have to freaking move back into Chi O...so we are just trying to get some ideas while they are all over the internet. It's starting to get late though so I'm going to have a little baguette with Nutella and head to bed. We are going to the grocery store tomorrow to get stuff to make tacos and I found us a recipe for cheese sauce for Mac & Cheese so we're going to look for that stuff. We are also going to scope out what we think we can take with us to Disneyland to eat so we don't have to pay a ton of money. We get breakfast everyday but we need lunch and dinner ideas. Any suggestions are appreciated!
After class we were trying to deicide if we wanted to eat at school or head home but we decided to check our emails first since we can't do that at home. When we got downstairs there was a ridiculus line for a table that was serving a few different things for free. We went on into the student lounge and were going to go back out when the line died back down. I looked back out later and the line had finally died down but they were also cleaning up the table. We decided to come home and have some cheese and crackers for lunch.
After lunch we messed around on the internet for a while and watched Wizards of Waverly Place on the Disney Break. At 5 when it was over we were both exhausted. I grabbed my book and wanted to read but i set my alarm for a little after 6 just in case. I ended up falling right asleep before I even opened my book. When i woke up I checked facebook then Morgan asked if I was hungry so we decided to make our chicken noodle soup. It was the tiniest noodles I have ever seen but it was good. I washed up all our dishes after dinner got back on my computer. I emailed mom a few times and we looked at halloween costumes again. We have decided we are going t have a halloween party next semester when we live in our own house...or at Beta Sig if we have to freaking move back into Chi O...so we are just trying to get some ideas while they are all over the internet. It's starting to get late though so I'm going to have a little baguette with Nutella and head to bed. We are going to the grocery store tomorrow to get stuff to make tacos and I found us a recipe for cheese sauce for Mac & Cheese so we're going to look for that stuff. We are also going to scope out what we think we can take with us to Disneyland to eat so we don't have to pay a ton of money. We get breakfast everyday but we need lunch and dinner ideas. Any suggestions are appreciated!
The Day That Got Away
I realized this morning while i was brushing my teeth I had forgotten to update this yesterday. To say the least the day kinda got away from us yesterday. We had our alarm set to get up at 10 and when it went off I was still real tired and I was hoping Morgan wouldn't move around like she was waking up...she didn't...so I fell back asleep. I ended up waking up at 12:42 and she had just woken up as well. We got up, eat some food, and got ready. We headed down to the ATM to get some cash so we could buy our train tickets to Paris without having to use our cards cause the bank charges are outrageous. After visiting the ATM we were headed to the bus stop when Morgan realized her bus pass was still in her backpack. We looped back to home and got her bus pass then headed down to the train station.
We were hoping we would be able to speak with someone who spoke English and that they would be just as helpful as the people that we spoke with last time. We noticed that a few of the tellers had their signs in French as well as English which we took to mean they spoke English. When it was our turn the guy who called us's sign wasn't in English so we aksed if he spoke English. He laughed and then the guy next to him said he did and he would help us when he was finished with his customer. We only had a wait a few more minutes and he was available. He understood what we were asking for and luckily I thought about us bringing our passports because we needed them. He was able to write in the dates our month of travel began and ended as well as stamp our passes which validated them. He as also able to get us our tran tickets to Paris for next weekend. We leave at 6:10 and get to Paris at 9 and we only have to walk 30 meters to Disneyland. We also dont' have to leave Sunday untill 9:25 which means we will get 3 full days at Disneyland. Roundtrip the tickets only cost us 6 Euros (about $9) a peice. When we had looked online they were 22 Euros one way. We were really happy with the price at the tain station and plan on buying there is we need anymore tickets. With our passes we dont usually have to buy tickets. You only need tickets for high speed or night trains which we won't need unless we are on a time crunch like going to Disneyland. Although we talked about going back to the train station tomorrow and asking how much the night trains are becuase if they are only 6 Euros as well that is cheaper than hostels and might make more sense.
We stopped at the grocery store...like always...on the way home. We were looking in the window of the bakery next door at how delicious everything looked before we went inside the store. We just needed juice and baguette, but as Morgan was grabbing the baguette I saw choclate filled croiusant type things. They looked amazing. We decided instead of getting a regular baguette and a little one we would get our regular one and those.
When we got back we stopped at the front desk and asked about coins for laundry. It cost 3.5o Euros to do 1 wash and 2 Euros to dry. We decided to do our laundry together to save some money. I talked to mom for a while after we got upstairs and the we ate bread for dinner. About 7:45 we decided to start our laundry. We did colors first becuase that was what we both had the most shirts of and it would wash our underwear as well. We are going to do whites today so we dont' run out of socks. We put our clothes in to wash...they barely all fit...and came back upstairs and decided to start decorating for Halloween. Time got a way and it had been a little over an hour since we put our clothes in...it said it needed an hour...so we headed downstairs to switch them into the dryer. Someone else had put their clothes in the other washer while we were upstairs to we decided to set an alarm this time so they wouldn't move our clothes out of the dryer. We decorated more while we waited then went down and folded all our shirts and brought our underwear back up in a bag so we wouldnt drop any of it. We put it away and got back to make our room more halloweeny.
I decorated our window so everyone else could get in the spirit and Morgan made a ton of pumpkins, ghosts, and some owls to rep Chi O. I also made a scarried cat and a grave yard. I'll add some pics at the end of this so you can see our kindergaten style drawing skills. When we got done drawing we started taping everything on the walls and had a ton of scraps left over. Morgan started trimming them all down and I made them into colorful chains. We hung them from our ceiling to add a little more flair. We are going to made a few more things in this weekend to decorate the room with our beds cause it's a little bare. When we were finally finished we realized it was 1 in the morning and we had to be up for class at 8:15. I'll tell ya about the rest of today later tonight once it's all over!!!
We were hoping we would be able to speak with someone who spoke English and that they would be just as helpful as the people that we spoke with last time. We noticed that a few of the tellers had their signs in French as well as English which we took to mean they spoke English. When it was our turn the guy who called us's sign wasn't in English so we aksed if he spoke English. He laughed and then the guy next to him said he did and he would help us when he was finished with his customer. We only had a wait a few more minutes and he was available. He understood what we were asking for and luckily I thought about us bringing our passports because we needed them. He was able to write in the dates our month of travel began and ended as well as stamp our passes which validated them. He as also able to get us our tran tickets to Paris for next weekend. We leave at 6:10 and get to Paris at 9 and we only have to walk 30 meters to Disneyland. We also dont' have to leave Sunday untill 9:25 which means we will get 3 full days at Disneyland. Roundtrip the tickets only cost us 6 Euros (about $9) a peice. When we had looked online they were 22 Euros one way. We were really happy with the price at the tain station and plan on buying there is we need anymore tickets. With our passes we dont usually have to buy tickets. You only need tickets for high speed or night trains which we won't need unless we are on a time crunch like going to Disneyland. Although we talked about going back to the train station tomorrow and asking how much the night trains are becuase if they are only 6 Euros as well that is cheaper than hostels and might make more sense.
We stopped at the grocery store...like always...on the way home. We were looking in the window of the bakery next door at how delicious everything looked before we went inside the store. We just needed juice and baguette, but as Morgan was grabbing the baguette I saw choclate filled croiusant type things. They looked amazing. We decided instead of getting a regular baguette and a little one we would get our regular one and those.
When we got back we stopped at the front desk and asked about coins for laundry. It cost 3.5o Euros to do 1 wash and 2 Euros to dry. We decided to do our laundry together to save some money. I talked to mom for a while after we got upstairs and the we ate bread for dinner. About 7:45 we decided to start our laundry. We did colors first becuase that was what we both had the most shirts of and it would wash our underwear as well. We are going to do whites today so we dont' run out of socks. We put our clothes in to wash...they barely all fit...and came back upstairs and decided to start decorating for Halloween. Time got a way and it had been a little over an hour since we put our clothes in...it said it needed an hour...so we headed downstairs to switch them into the dryer. Someone else had put their clothes in the other washer while we were upstairs to we decided to set an alarm this time so they wouldn't move our clothes out of the dryer. We decorated more while we waited then went down and folded all our shirts and brought our underwear back up in a bag so we wouldnt drop any of it. We put it away and got back to make our room more halloweeny.
I decorated our window so everyone else could get in the spirit and Morgan made a ton of pumpkins, ghosts, and some owls to rep Chi O. I also made a scarried cat and a grave yard. I'll add some pics at the end of this so you can see our kindergaten style drawing skills. When we got done drawing we started taping everything on the walls and had a ton of scraps left over. Morgan started trimming them all down and I made them into colorful chains. We hung them from our ceiling to add a little more flair. We are going to made a few more things in this weekend to decorate the room with our beds cause it's a little bare. When we were finally finished we realized it was 1 in the morning and we had to be up for class at 8:15. I'll tell ya about the rest of today later tonight once it's all over!!!
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