So today was not a very fun day. I finally did my Intermediate Accounting homework for the week. I started around 1 p.m. and finally finished around 8 p.m., so about 6 hours (I took an hour off for dinner). It was a productive, but not very fun day. Tomorrow is the first day of class for most people at JCU, but not me. I don't start classes until Tuesday.
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So, today I got to sleep in. I had no plans today, I just leisurely woke up and laid in bed. It was so nice. I went ahead and booked my ticket to Norway. Then I got a Facebook message from Vanda asking if Olivia and I wanted to go to the JCU bar-b-que and the Cat Sanctuary. Since I had no plans, I said yes. One of Olivia's piercings was bleeding, so she decided not to go. At 12:30 I walked down to the JCU Giulani Campus, where the bar-b-que was supposed to be. I was able to find my way, which is good since I had only been there once. I got there and noticed the hamburgers and hotdogs, so I grabbed a plate and grabbed some food. Everyone else was dancing and talking. Some people got in line behind me and grabbed some food. Then a student came running over waving his hands. I think we were supposed to wait to get food. Oops! Then I sat down to eat, while waiting for Vanda and Sarah to show up. They showed up a couple of minutes later, and went to get something to eat. Another student came running up, telling them it wasn't time yet but they already had food on their plates so she let them finish. Really, if there is food sitting out and we are not supposed to eat it, there really needs to be a guard there. We are hungry broke college students! The hot dog was okay, the bun was tougher than what I am used to. What I thought was a hamburger was actually a veggie burger, so I only ate a couple of bites, then I went and got another hotdog. Then we left JCU to walk towards the cat sanctuary. Sarah started to head towards the left, and I said, "the river is towards the right." Again, my sense of direction fails me. The river is towards the right, but the road we were on slants left, so we were actually going the wrong way, but it did eventually make it to the river.
After that we finally made it to Ovese, the grocery store. I showed Vanda and Sarah were the food they were looking for was. I knew where everything was since I spent over an hour there yesterday walking around. I needed Detergent, Softener, and toilet paper, so I went looking for those items. I found the cleaning aisle, but none of us could figure out which items were the detergent. Of course all of the labels were in Italian, so we stood there looking at the pictures on the label trying to figure out the difference between the softeners and the detergent. After about 10 minutes, Sarah found the word, "softener" written in English on a bottle. At the top, there was the italian word "ammorbidente." That word was on several of the other bottles, so we decided that must be the word for softener. By deduction, we decided the other bottles were detergent. But there were also bottles that were scented water for the iron, and other stuff that I have no idea what it is. I bought a bottle of what I think is a 2-in-1 softener and detergent. I hope that I am right, because I don't think they take returns. Even if they did, I wouldn't know how to ask for a refund!
Next I got some toilet paper, which was easy to figure out because I could see through the plastic. Vanda and Sarah picked up some other food items that they needed, then we went to check out. Since Vanda still owed me 7.50 euros from 2 days ago she paid for my items. They didn't bring any bags, so they were charged 15 euro cents per plastic bag they used. I guess I had a nice guy yesterday because he didn't charge me for the 2 bags that I used for my groceries. Note to self: Always bring a bag when I go to the grocery store. Note: I am going to upload more photos to this blog, but the wifi is slow so they take FOREVER to upload. I will do it tomorrow while I do my Intermediate Accounting homework that I still haven't done. It isn't due until Monday, but I don't know how the time change will affect it so I need to do it tomorrow, so no exploring for me :( *Update: All photos are uploaded. I am so excited! I just booked my first flight to another country! On September 6 I fly to Oslo, Norway! I fly back to Rome on September 8. I have not researched Oslo at all, so I hope it will be fun! I hope I get to see the Northern Lights while I am there! Now I just have to research hostels, tours, and sights that I want to see.
I also decided on which class to choose for JCU. I am going to take Illuminated Manuscripts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It is a Tuesday/Thursday class. I sounds like a lot of fun. We get to learn how to make books. The only issue is that there is a field trip one Friday during the term, so I won't get to travel that day. I am hoping it falls October 10, since I will be staying in Rome anyways because Aunt Carolyn, Mom, and Kendall are coming. I just hope it doesn't fall October 3rd, because I was planning on traveling to Sweden that day. They have discount tickets that day for 56 euros! That is about $75 for a round trip flight to Sweden! Olivia and I walked to the supermarket, because neither one of us had any food. We went to Ovese, which is a mall, but there is a supermarket under it. We walk in and it was pretty big by Italian standards, so the size of a Walgreens by American standards. Olivia has already been to 2 supermarkets and she said it was the biggest she has seen so far. So we walk in there and pass by the fruit aisle, and the cheeses. The pasta aisle was against the wall and went almost completely around the store. And I just wonder around with my little cart because I have no idea where to go, and I have no idea what anything says because it is all in Italian. I finally end up in the meat section. I see something that looks like ground beef, but it is not ground. It is in the strips. I am thinking, "Perfect! All I have to do is find a box of taco seasoning and I can make tacos." I look around. I wonder through all of the aisles, no taco seasoning, and no international food aisle. Where is a Walmart or HEB when you need it? Okay, no tacos, so what else can I make? I wonder around some more, going down the 4 aisles. There is not much to see. Then I think, what else can I make, something that is for breakfast? Muffins! I scour the entire store looking for a box of muffin mix. Nothing. How about bacon and eggs? I found the eggs, but no bacon. Or if they did have bacon I couldn't find it because all of the meat products were written in Italian. Then I think, I have a can opener, I can get some chili or spaghetti O's. Nope. I found maybe 4 different kinds of canned food products and they were beans and green beans. I am still walking around the store, pulling my empty cart behind me. I start thinking about snack food, food that will hold me over until I can find a recipe to make. I immediately think about goldfish. Who doesn't love goldfish? The Italians. No goldfish in Rome, at least not in this supermarket. :( I am so sad. Nothing makes you miss home like not having the right comfort food, or being able to eat your favorite foods. It is very overwhelming
I found Olivia following a girl to the end of the pasta aisle. She had been looking for sea salt for the last 15 minutes. The girl showed her where it was. Her name is Giulia (in English, Julia) and she is studying international communication at John Cabot. She had studied abroad in Washington but she had to return to Italy because of her mother's health. She was very helpful and added me on Facebook. She is going to help Olivia and me learn Italian while she perfects her English. On my way out, I pick up the eggs. They do not store them in the fridge in Italy, they sit on a shelf. We were at the grocery store for over an hour, which is saying a lot when it is smaller than a Walgreens. Before I go again, I will have to look up an Italian recipe. Maybe then I will find some good food. When we got back to the apartment, we put away our groceries and I found a note on the fridge that I had not read before. You can't see it on the picture, but at the bottom it says that YPR can get peanut butter! I need to order some stat! Do you think they have goldfish? I made a decision on the first country that I want to visit. I decided to focus on the northern countries because as we get closer to winter, they are going to get snowed in I will not be able to go there. So I am going to start at the top of the map and work my way down. So that means that Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia are my first choices. I am going to look at prices and choose the cheapest one.
So I had lunch in the JCU cafe. The food is okay, typical college cafeteria food. Afterwards I went upstairs for the campus tour. The tour guide took us to the Giulani Campus, where I have a couple of classes. She showed us around, and then took us back to the Tiber Campus. She wasn't the best of tour guides. She sounded irritated, and her tour was, "Here is this..., this is what you do here..., this is the next location..." I learned nothing, so I will just have to explore on my own later. After the campus tour I decided to go back to my apartment to drop off my backpack before the Monuments Tour since I had an hour. I relaxed a little, then left my apartment at 25 minutes till 3, the time we were supposed to meet. I walked to the meeting point, Piazza Trilussa, and arrived 10 minutes early. There were only 2 other girls there from API. We sat and talked a little while, and no one showed up. Then this strange guy started talking to us. He asked us if we were studying abroad. He was up in our personal space, which I understand Italian have a different concept of personal space, so it was just weird. Then Deicy (the girl in the wheelchair whose name I thought was first Jadie and then Stacy. I Facebook stalked her and her name is Deicy. I wasn't the only one who thought that, Liv thought it was Stacy too) and the Italian-speaking girl (whose name I still don't know) came up with gelato. The other girls and I were like "Oh, you got gelato, how is it?" and she said it was FREE! We were like "What?! FREE GELATO? WHERE?" Then the guy a couple of steps below us turned around and handed us a coupon for a free gelato and told us where it was. From the way he was talking, it sounded like it was just down the street. Then he took us there. He is a representative from Bus2Alps, a company that specializes in weekend tours. They sometimes have free events to publicize their company. I added him on Facebook so he is going to put me in the group where they offer promotions, like half off deals or freebies in Rome. Tonight they are having a 1-hour Night Tour, so I might go to that. There was a long line, but we decided to stay for our gelato since it was already after 3 p.m. I got a biscotti (cookie) gelato. Then we tried to walk back to Piazza Trilussa. We got lost. Surprise! We were walking down this street (which didn't look familiar) and one of the girls was said, "I think we were supposed to turn back there (the street we had just passed)" and I said "We can just turn at the next one." The next one was the equivalent of 4 American blocks. It was a big walled courtyard and garden, but there was no way to get to the other side because the gates were chained shut. So we hurried around it, then had to walk back down the street. We got to Pizza Trilussa at 3:26, 26 minutes late. No one was there, we had missed the tour. So sad :(. So I walked back to my apartment. Now I am thinking about going to the store so that I have something to eat in the morning. I guy from Your Place in Rome (YPR) just came to the apartment, they are the company that API rents from. He came to switch out the remotes. He called in through the intercom system so I let him up, but I put the chain on the door. That way I could ask for identification before actually opening the door to a stranger. He was from YPR, so I let him in. He told me I should not chain the door, that way if someone is injured in the apartment they can get in to help. I told him I only chained the door when he called and he said "I am speaking English." So I was like okay, "I won't chain the door." He switched out the remotes and asked if everything was okay in the apartment. I said that we didn't have a fan, because that was on the apartment checklist, and he said they only give them to the summer residents. But, they just ordered a lot and if I wanted one I should submit a ticket for one. He left. The apartment doesn't bother me without a fan. It is cooler here than it was in Texas, so I'm fine. The only thing I am not used to is the higher humidity. I only asked because the other girls really wanted one. They are from up north, so they are not as used to the heat. So I woke up at 7:30 a.m. because we had to be at campus at 9:00 for orientation. I got ready and when I went to the bathroom for the last time I noticed that the girls in the other room were still asleep. This was at 8:20, so I woke them up. Either they didn't set their alarm, they slept through it, or it didn't go off. I left early because I was missing some documents: a copy of my passport, a copy of my visa, my insurance card. I arrived at the campus and had to ask around. I finally found the immigration office and I was able to make copies of my documents. I am glad that I did because the guy went ahead and processed my documents. All I had left to do was turn them in and pay. That guy hadn't arrived yet, so I went to my first meeting. It was an introductory meeting, so they just gave tips for managing money and talked about the services they provide like counseling.
After the meeting they released us to finish the immigration process and get our ID cards. Since I already had my documents, I got to skip most of the line and went straight to turn it in. I paid for the processing, which was $204.47, so there goes more of my budget. Afterwards I went to go get my ID. They took my picture and it will be ready in 2 hours. I decided to come to the JCU computer lab while I was waiting and I saw Liv still in line. She was way ahead of me when I signed in and now she is at the back of a really long line to pay for the processing. I am glad that I came early! Now I am in the computer lab trying to type this blog. The problem is that Italian keyboards are different from American ones. Their keyboards have funky symbols that they had to make room for, like: ò ç à ° § ù è é £ € ì. So while I am typing I keep making mistakes, because the keys are not where my fingers remember them. I took me forever to figure out how to make the at (@) symbol. For future reference, you hit Ctrl Alt ò. I still haven't found the apostrophe symbol, so I am depending on Spell Check to correct it for me. This symbol < is where the Shift button usually is. So I am typing a lot slower now, because I have to watch where I am typing. Another issue I am dealing with is that my computer is in Italian, so I am just guessing where to put information. My Mac keeps trying to switch to Italian and I have to keep correcting it. Now it is almost lunch time, so I guess I will start heading down there. After lunch we have a campus tour, and then it is our first excursion for API! We have a Monuments of Rome Tour! I am only taking 12 hours at JCU, and the API program pays for up to 17 hours. I have been thinking of taking another class just for fun. None of these classes will transfer to TWU, but that is okay because then I don't have to worry about it affecting my GPA. Here is my narrowed down list:
- Illuminated Manuscripts of the Middle Ages - Web Design - Latin - International Management - Philosophy - Public International Law I can't decide what to take! All of the classes sound fun. I am leaning towards either Latin or Philosophy, because they sound fun. However, International Management and Public International Law would go with one of my majors even though it doesn't count for credit. Since I do not want to move, I have decided to research some more. Now that I have all day Monday and Wednesday free, I decided to look for day trips from Rome. I have found these:
- Ruins of Ostio Antica - Sabine Hills - Via Appia Antica Catacombs - Tivoli - Orvieto - Venice - Tarquinia - Assisi - Fracasti - Siena - Cerveteri - Reggia di Caserta - Subaico Another thing that I want to do one day is to follow the path of the Illuminati from Angels and Demons. So today, I got up at 8 a.m., so I could be at John Cabot at 10 a.m. for orientation. I got up, slowly got ready and left about 9:00 a.m. Liv and I looked at our schedules and I found out that one of the classes that I wanted was now not full, so I signed up for it. Now I only have Tuesday and Thursday classes! I have 5 days a week free to explore! Liv found out that the class she wanted was also not full now, so she has Thursday free. Liv and I thought we could find a little cafe on the way to John Cabot and find something to eat for breakfast. No such luck. All the shops are closed on the way to John Cabot. Good to know. So we got there, found the classroom we were supposed to be in. We were the first ones there. A couple of minutes later Alessario came in, he is our resident director. He passed out forms for us to fill out, just saying we would not hold John Cabot reliable in case of an injury. As everyone came in at the same time, he ran out of pens. I brought my backpack, so I lent him some pens. Then we had our meeting, which was very interesting. They told us about some Italian food differences, like there is no alfredo sauce in Italy. It just sounds Italian, so that is how they market it. Also, Italian salad dressing is just olive oil and vinegar, maybe a little bit of salt; not the plentiful flavors that we have. Also, meatballs are only available in some parts of Italy, but not in Rome. Also, there pizza crust is different. They have Pizza Napoliano, which is our version of hand-tossed; and Pizza Romana, which is our version of thin crust. They also showed us how to access their files and events. The files has some useful information, like how to travel to the airports. After the meeting we went to lunch, but we only had 30 minutes to eat because the API meeting ran late. We ate in the JCU cafe, which was pretty good. You can tell that Italian people are VERY healthy, because they consider pineapple to be a dessert. I met 2 new people while standing in line: Vanda and Sarah. Vanda is from Kentucky and is a Classics major. She is in heaven in Rome! Sarah is from California and is majoring in Experimental Writing.
I have decided to research cheap flight deals. I found out that Ryanair has cheap flight deals on their website. Here are some of the deals that I have found:
- Thassaloniki, Greece: 19.6 euros - Brussels, Belgium: 19.6 euros - Oslo, Norway: 22.99 euros - Bratislava, Slovakia: 22.99 euros - London, England: 22.99 euros - Gothenburg, Sweden: 22.99 euros - Budapest, Hungary: 23.99 - Kos, Turkey: 25.99 euros - Dublin, Ireland: 40.99 euros - Edinburgh, Scotland: 50.99 euros Of course, these deals are only on certain days, so I have to plan my trips accordingly. Finally, it was our turn to go to our new apartment. We loaded our suitcases onto the tour bus, which we got all to ourselves. They we went to our apartment, which was a 5-minute walk from the hotel. We got our suitcases and went in. There is a key to the door of the building, along with a call box if someone wants to come visit. We each got to try our key out to make sure it worked. Then inside the building is an elevator! We didn't have to carry our suitcases up 2 flights of stairs! All of us are really excited about it!
I slept for about 10 or 11 hours last night. I was that tired. I woke up a couple of minutes before my alarm went off. Then I just laid there for a while. I eventually got up and started getting ready, then I went downstairs for the free breakfast. It was basically just croissant and some strange looking meats that I didn't want to try. I ate breakfast with one of my newt roommates, her name is Laura. She attends the University of Massachusetts. She is a Criminal Justice major and she wants to be a lawyer. She is very nice. This is her first time in Europe, but she has been to Ecuador before because she has family there. She signed up for study abroad because she has 2 friends doing studying here. After breakfast we had another meeting, this one about Rome. We learned how Romans are different from our culture. They do not wait in lines, instead the just group around where they are buying something. They are also not very on time, bus schedule can be off, pedestrians have the right of way but cars won't stop for them. After that we had a presentation about our apartments: things we could be fined for, who to call, how to submit a maintenance request, etc. Then we went and got our suitcases so we could go to our new apartment. Getting our suitcases was crazy. They were all in one room so there was a huge line to get them, and then we were all grouped around the lobby waiting. They called people by apartment, and took the people by groups. Of course ours was the last to be called, and we waited for at least an hour. I was sitting down in the lobby just watching Liv (another roommate), to make sure we weren't called. At one point I saw her walk out the door with her suitcase, so thinking we had been called, I chased after her. Apparently she saw our other 2 roommates leave and thought the same thing. So we sat outside and talked. Olivia (Liv) is from Birmingham, Alabama but attends college in New York. She is a Religion and Woman's Studies major, but has no idea what she wants for a career. She has studied abroad before, in England her freshman year. Her dad is the founder and CEO of Books-a-million. Her parents are divorced and she has 2 half-sisters. She is also very nice. We talked about what we would want in a roommate. She enjoys being independent and having alone time. She is not a neat freak, which is good because I am not. I also met my last roommate, Janelle. Janelle attends the University of Massachusetts with Laura and they are good friends. I have not had the chance to talk to her one-on-one yet, so I don't know much about her. She is a psychology major and business minor. She is here with her boyfriend. Well, I didn't get any homework done. After Blogging, looking on Facebook, and taking a shower, I only had 1.5 hours left. So I looked for the book for the Italy Reads Program. I signed up before I left San Antonio. Basically, they have students go the local high schools to help them read English. They have a book every year, this year it is A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. We both read it, and I have some training videos that I am supposed to watch, and I help them write a report about it, all in English. I would only go to the school a couple of times a month. On the school website they said only 6 hours per semester. I thought this would be a fun way to help people. I didn't want to buy the book, but I found a website where I could read it for free. The whole time that I was reading it, I kept falling asleep, but I force myself to wake up. I am afraid that I will fall asleep and miss the meeting at 5 p.m. Finally, I just set an alarm on my phone, just in case I fell asleep. I set it for 4 p.m. But the I couldn't fall asleep, my body was exhausted but my mind was still active. I just gave up and went back to reading A Farewell to Arms. 4 p.m. came and my alarm didn't ring. I looked at my phone and realized I had set it for 4 a.m.! Good thing I didn't fall asleep! I went downstairs to the meeting place, and then we went to a meeting room on the 1st floor (our 2nd floor in the U.S.). We had a meeting, it was mostly about safety, rules, and API's expectations of us. They gave us some safety tips, like watch our purses especially at tourist attractions and on the metro. Rome is one of the safest cities in Europe, physically. There is very little violence in attacks, it is mostly someone grabbing your purse and running; but no one gets injured. According to the American Embassy, 99% of crimes against Americans in Italy is drinking related. Apparently drunk people are easy targets. An API rule is no drinking on excursions. also told us what to do in case of an emergency, like a war breaking out in Italy. Our first meeting place is at our apartments, then the API office, then the John Cabot Campus. If none of those places are safe, then we are screwed. I figure if none of those places are safe I will start walking to the American Embassy since they have one in Rome. Hopefully they will let me in. If we are on an excursion, we will have a meeting point while we have free time, and our second meeting point is the hotel.
So after we left the airport, our API tour director led us to the bus. We got on the bus and went to the hotel. The room were not ready yet, so the hotel stored our luggage for us and we went on a tour of Rome while our director went back to the airport to pick up more students. Luckily we have a student that is from southern Italy and she is studying at John Cabot through API. She was able to guide us through the neighborhood. The hotel is in the Travestevere neighborhood, which is where our apartments are. We decided to just walk down Via Travestevere and look around. While we were walking we found my apartment (right). We continued on. Along the way we found a little pizzeria and Jadie (I think that is her name) was hungry. While the other girls stopped to talk with the group that split from our earlier in the walk, Jadie decided to buy a pizza. The problem is that Jadie is in an electronic wheelchair, and there was no way to walk inside. Also, Jadie didn't know if she would like the pizza since it is so different from American pizza. I was also hungry so I decided to split it with her. We each paid 2,50 euros. The pizza was actually pretty good. It had tomatoes, basil, olive oil, and brochette on it. We ate quickly and then the group wanted to see the campus. We walked to the campus. The only way to get into the campus was up a flight of stairs. The stairs had a wheelchair lift, but it would not fit Jadie's electronic wheelchair. She had to move to a push wheelchair, get on the lift, ride up it, and have someone push her into the building. This took a long time. While she was trying to get in, everyone else was signing in and getting their packets. They were done by the time she was getting onto the lift. Only the Italian-speaking student and I stayed with her. We finally signed in and received our packets. They offered to take Jadie on a tour, but we had to be back at the hotel at 1 and it was already noon. We left and got back on Via Travestevere, which leads straight to our hotel. Jadie had some trouble with the streets because of the sidewalks, not all of them were wheelchair accessible so she had to find alternate routes. Only the Italian-speaking girl and I stayed with her, the rest of the group just kept going and we finally met them at the hotel.
At the hotel, they assigned roommates and gave us our hotel key. I am rooming with 2 other girls, one of which is my roommate for our apartment, Lauren. Right after we got in the room the other 2 girls decided to leave to explore (they arrived on a later flight) and get something to eat. They invited me along but I just wanted to take a shower and change clothes. It took me forever to figure out how to turn the lights on. I kept going around the room, hitting random buttons in the hope that one would power on the electricity; but no luck. Luckily, a friend of Lauren's came looking for her and I asked him if he knew how to turn on the lights and he did. On the key ring was an extra key, and you plug that into a hole in the wall by the door, which allows you to turn on the lights. Finally, I was able to take a shower, and the pressure is AWESOME. I thought the pressure would peel my skin off, it was so powerful. Now I am dressed for dinner, and waiting for 5 p.m., when we will meet up in the lobby. Now it is time to do some homework for Intermediate Accounting while I have some free time. Today has been a LONG day. The plane from San Antonio to Dulles was really boring. I read my book the whole time, but it wasn't a very interesting book. Then we arrived in Dulles, and I had to walk to the opposite side of the terminal to get to my gate. I found my gate then I kept walking to find something to eat. The only thing to eat was at a sandwich shop, so I got a pizza sandwich. I had just enough time to walk to my gate, shove it down my throat, and board the plane.
I was in the middle aisle seat, so the overhead compartment was way above my head. I couldn't reach it. Luckily the guy in the seat across from me decided to help me, after my water bottle fell on my head. Finally the plane was in the air and I could watch some movies, but my screen was not a touch screen. I only had 10 options on the TV: The Other Woman, Heaven is for Real, Spiderman 2, Pacific Rim, and some TV shows. So I ended up watching Pacific Rim twice and Heaven is for Real once. (Once I landed I found out that it was the plane I was on. Apparently only certain planes let passengers pick the movies they get to watch.) After watching Heaven is for Real I decide to settle back and get some sleep, but when I pushed my seat back, the guy behind me pushed it forward. I pushed my seat back again, and he pushed it forward again. Then he told me he had a torn ACL muscle and asked me not to push my seat back. So the whole flight I was sitting straight up. I tried to get some sleep by sleeping on my tray table, but it was very uncomfortable. So in all, I got perhaps 2 hours of sleep. Then we landed and were bused to the terminal. The line to get our passports stamped was LONG, almost reaching to the door we entered through. Finally I got through Customs and went to get my bags. On the flight they told us it would be at Baggage Lane 6, so I stood there and waited and waited and waited some more. Finally someone else that was on my flight looked at the Baggage Guide and announced that we were in Lane 8. So I got my bag from Lane 8, and walked around looking for the double doors I was supposed to exit through. I found them, with the help of some security people, who I thanked by saying Grazie!, and they said something, I think it was Welcome to Italy. I found the API tour director and at 10 we left the airport. Well, I am at the San Antonio Airport now waiting for my flight. I was able to get through Security and find my gate. I had some trouble at the ticket counter, but they were able to resolve it after a couple (nerve-racking) minutes. Now I am worried that I don't have everything that I will need. I hope that I will have fun in Rome and all of the other places I am going to visit.
My morning has been a little hectic. I meant to wake up early (3 a.m.) so I would be so exhausted that I would be able to sleep on the plane, but I kept turning my alarms off, so I didn't wake up until 5:30 a.m. Oh well. I finally finished packing (last minute) and realized that my bag might be a little too heavy. Mom didn't have a scale so I couldn't weigh it. I went through it one last time and took out the non essentials: a pair of jeans, my boots, and my Bible. I still haven't done my Discussion Board for my online class and it is due today at midnight. Mom made me a breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast, and leftover mashed potatoes and brown gravy and cake. I packed some cookies for the flight. Sorry Dad, but I forgot to give you the jerky from Bucee's so I am taking it on the plane for a snack. I was lucky to be able to find a Best Buy that was open at 9, because I needed a camera battery and converter. They guy was very helpful and it cost $75.73. Thanks for the money Nina and Joe's dad! I had $75 and Mom gave me the 73 cents. Now it is time for me to do my Discussion board before I fail my Intermediate Accounting class! |
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