O Onion, Where Art Thou?

Today was a rather busy day, always welcome in my book. I got up early this morning, went to German class and then Marketing, and then I went for my first two-hour training session at the Writing Center. I learned many important things like 1) never say anything negative, 2) never say bad things about professors, 3) Korean grammar is much more complicated than English grammar, 4) I should visit Berlin, 5) don’t proofread for people no matter what treasures beyond your wildest imaginings they might promise… So that was good. Got done there about 12:30pm, then had lunch, then headed back down the hill to Girasole.

And there was finally an open washing machine! Hallejuah, praise the lord! So my colors are now washed, I just have to wash my whites now. In any case, I am thankful. After I did laundry, I went back up the hill for the second German class of my day. But before that I went to the post office. We had to have a makeup German class today because we’re not going to have class on Friday because Professor Vadilonga has something else she needs to do. So we made up class ahead of time. Having to make up class every time a professor can’t make it, is pretty annoying, if I were to be quite honest.

Keely and I are still attempting to figure out the car rental situation to get ourselves to Munich. You cannot rent an actual car in Switzerland if you are under 21 years of age. This means that we must rent a Smart Car if we are to rent anything. So we’ve been trying to figure out that all day. It’ll cost us $104/car/weekend. So I don’t know if I’m going to make it out there or not. We’re going to have definite plans by tomorrow—sorry about the short notice to all the family over there. Things are a tad bit disorganized. In any case, I’ll be visiting in October after Sicily! Hooray for that!

I really do want to get out of Lugano though, it’s feeling smaller and smaller. It’s a very tiny town in all honesty. And I’ve had my share of walking for the time being. I lost a hairband somewhere near the couch in the Common Room. Darn it. I hate it when that happens. I’ve been trying to upload a picture of the bear that Erin/Soraya/Lauren sent me, but I’ve been unsuccessful so far. Blogger has been rather temperamental, I’ve had trouble even just posting.

I miss Iranian food so much! I was talking to Gabi and Alauna about food today in the common room, when we were originally planning on studying for Western Civ, but it just turned into a “let’s-talk-about-all-the-wonderful-food-that-is-not-currently-available-to-us.” I’m getting rather tired of the Swiss-Italian food—there’s no spice! No onions or garlic. I miss my rice. If I don’t go to Munich this weekend, Deniz and I are hopefully going to do some cooking. She’s going to make borek (salty baklava) and I’m going to make kotlet (and maybe attempt to make pita bread on the stovetop, we’ll see how ambitious I’m feeling). And some yogurt salads of all sorts sound divine. As does just about anything with the slightest bit of normal spice or sautéed onions or garlic. Mmm… delicious… Or goulash! Or something delectable. School food is just a little too bland.

All right, I’m off to bed! Yoga tomorrow morning. I’ll keep everyone updated on the Munich situation.

Miss you guys! Smile!