I got a package today!! It was a good thing I brought my handy dandy Tesco bag with me, because it proved to be quite useful for carrying it. I met a Turkish girl as I was leaving school, and it seems that we'll be meeting up for lunch or dinner sometime next week. The students are mostly really quite friendly. It's interesting how quick they are to introduce themselves. I like it. I wish it was like that in the states. Nobody does introductions before class on the first day, let alone randomly on campus. So back to the package- it was awesome because it had easy mac and slippers, as well as many other useful things (thank you mom and dad!). It was also really exciting getting mail. Checking the mail back at school in Westminster used to be a whole adventure, and this morning when I got the email from Adriana saying that I had a package waiting for me, I suddenly had Steve from Blue's Clues in my head singing, "We just got a letter..." Yeah. Sadly, this is almost normal for me, but usually instead it'll be the "Here's the mail" song.
Today, we went to the market again. I think this will become a weekly event. We each bought a different kind of Hungarian chocolaty thing to try. I haven't eaten mine yet, though, because for some reason I've hardly been hungry all day. I also found out that maple syrup is freaking expensive here. A tiny bottle from Canada is about $15. Honey and mouthwash are also costly, but not to that extent. These things seem so random.
Dinner was at Laura and Julie's this week. They made mac&cheese, which was AMAZING because I've missed it so much. Still, though I wasn't that hungry. Laura also fried up some potato balls, for lack of a better term. They were good. They come frozen in a bag. I don't really know how to describe them other than that they're almost bready in consistency and someone else said they were similar to hush puppies, but I just don't know. They're good.
I learned how to make crepes! I didn't even know I liked crepes. It was fun. I was initially just helping Julie out by reading her the recipe and making sure we were halving the ingredients correctly (because a full batch supposedly would've made 20). Then when it came time to cook, I'd pour the batter and she'd flip it and spread nutella on it and serve it as I got the next one ready. So we had nutella crepes. Good stuff.
I was thusly inspired to learn to cook some other stuff, so I googled spaghetti sauce recipes and found the magic of allrecipes.com. I just wanted to check the seasonings that are used, because next Friday, Dani and I are making spaghetti and meatballs (with garlic bread and salad) for everybody. I like this rotation, and I'm super excited about cooking next week. I really like cooking now. It's just so awesome having a kitchen, even one with limited cookware. I need to go out and buy a cookie sheet or some kind of baking pan, so I can use it for pizza and croutons and french fries and other things that need to be cooked in an oven. I've come up with a whole new grocery list for other stuff I want to make while I'm here, like lasagna and tortillas and monkey bread. Dani said she'd cook the meat for me when necessary, which is awesome because I'm incapable of cooking meat and I can't eat meat if I see it raw first.
Tonight, I'm gonna read some more of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo before I go to bed. Tomorrow, we're going to the Terror Museum, which is about authoritarian dictatorships in Europe. Apparently, the bottom floor has actual jail cells, which I think is really cool, because in the US all you see are replicas of these things. Tomorrow, I'm also gonna make my first attempt at spaghetti sauce to kind of experiment before I need to actually cook for other people, because it would be a shame if I accidentally killed someone with bad food.
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