Kotlet, My Savior

Hello there.

Today was a pretty good day. I woke up quite early (around 6:00am), stayed awake until I was tired again, and then got back into bed until about 10:40am, and then I made schmaan. I stayed up until about 11:30 last night looking up hostels in Florence. I think I finally decided on one this morning--I booked it, but I'm not sure that it was confirmed, and I didn't want to click the confirm button again, just in case it would charge me more than once. So I'm sort of waiting for something to show up on my bank account. I hope it went through, in any case, I e-mailed the hostel too. So that was good.

At around noon Deniz and I went into town. We walked around a bit, shopped around a bit. I went into an H&M for the first time in my life. They have a lot of stuff in there, and it's all different, lots of variety. There were a few cute things, but nothing cute enough to buy. Especially when I'd rather spend $$ on travels to exotic places. :-) And according to Professor Cappiello, Sicily should be much, much cheaper than our beloved Lugano (which is outrageously expensive for the most part). After H&M we went back to the Turkish place for lunch, where we had Durum Kebab. Then we had gelato, at a different place than usual. I tried caramel and chocolate and Deniz had one that we couldn't identify... and hazelnut, I want to say?

After food, we went grocery shopping at Manor. I bought lots of veggies for the first time, some ground beef, eggs, milk, butter. Basics for the most part. After groceries we walked back up to Girasole, and I booked the hostel (hopefully), then I cleaned my room and kitchen yet again. Then mom called as I was poking around in the kitchen. Just so you know, the stories are true! You really can call my Swiss cellphone from a phonecard and it's free for me! (Rather than the usual 1CHF+ they charge me for calling just about any number.) So do feel free to give me a ring. Oma called me yesterday too, and it was quite successful. I made kotlet for dinner, and Deniz and I ate that with yogurt/garlic/salt/pepper, cucumbers, tomatoes, and bread. It was soo good. Even if the kotlet did need a little bit of salt, and pickles would have been nice condiment. There's plenty left over; we'll probably have it for lunch tomorrow. Ah, I appreciate leftovers so much more now... I bought some eggplant today too, I'm considering making some kookoo. I'm not sure if I have the right dishes for making it though.

So that was my day. Oh and Katie came over and borrowed The Graduate. Tomorrow should be pretty chill too. Hopefully I'll get my English essay that's due on Thursday done tomorrow. I've been working on my plane ticket to Munich too... More soon! (And I promise there should be some pictures of me in my apron coming about soon, Deniz and I were talking about staging them.)

Smile!