Friday night Ariella had me over to her room for Shabbat dinner. It was spaghetti and a delicious salad, and it felt so nice to do Shabbat with someone. We explained all of the blessings to her roommates, Jackie, Rachel, and Nicole, who were also eating around the same time. They were curious about about our customs so we got into many religious discussions throughout the evening. While we were eating, one of her roommates, Jackie, started washing the dishes, and Ariella yelled at her to stop. Jackie thought she had ruined Shabbat, but Ariella explained that she just felt bad that Jackie was washing our dishes. They were such great hostesses, though, and wouldn't even let me clean up even though I ate! I felt awful because (except in my own house of course) I feel horrible not helping! Anyway it was a lot of fun hanging out with all of them for the evening. Hillary and George also joined, although George was scared off by all of the girl talk (ex. Project Runway).
When I then returned to my room, I found Alex with Sean and Rachel (yes, there are 3 Rachels who I've mentioned so far. The one in previous posts is Rachel C. who lives in the room below me, Rachel N. is Ariella's roommate, and this one is Rachel B.). Anyway, I hung out with the three of them until they went out, read for a bit, and then went to sleep nice and early (considering how often I stay up late it was pretty nice).
Saturday I ended up reading a lot. I found out on my Kindle that most classics are free, so I got a lot of them. However, I prefer reading paper books that I can hold and flip pages, so I brought a few with me, but have decided that reading classics is probably a good thing to do, so I spent my day reading Wuthering Heights, which I am finding intriguing.
After the full day in, I had to get out, so I went with Hanna, Justina, the room below mine (Rachel, Pam, Lindsay and Brianna (Rachel and Brianna took very little convincing after saying they were not joining us), Chris, Julia, and Pam's boyfriend Tim (yes, there were ten of us). After a while of deciding between Kings Cross and the Rocks, the deciding factor was pancakes. We went to Argyle, which is a really fun club in the Rocks, and ran into many other people on our program there. We picked up Taylor (who I sat next to on the plane), Elizabeth, Victoria, Julia, and Melissa, and lost a few, and headed to Pancakes on the Rocks, a pancake place open 24/7. Lindsay and I split the Vanilla and Choc (yeah that's what it was called) Surprise. It was a chocolate pancake with vanilla ice cream and a plain pancake with chocolate ice cream. It was delicious, although I've learned that chocolate pancakes may be a bit heavy for me, so in the future I'll stick with classic plain. The ice cream was also surprisingly great. It was the perfect meal. Victoria and Julia licked the delicious plates clean for most of us (some by bets, which paid for part of their meal). Basically it was a lot of fun and I'm so glad I got out.
Today not much happened except while I was in the mall, this little girl ran up to me and put her hand in
mine, and I didn't close my hand since it was sort of awkward, and she tried three times to hold my hand, until she really looked up at me and realized I was not, in fact, her mother. It reminded me of the time when I was little and I thought I saw my grandmother and ran up and gave a woman a hug until I looked up and realized it wasn't my Grandma Anne, it was a stranger. Anyway I apologized to her father, but I don't think he spoke English and he was laughing and I think apologized to me as well, and then went off and I believe told the girl's mother what happened.
That's most of my excitement for now! Class again tomorrow, but I think I'm set on food for a while so that's convenient. Oh and Hanna made me a sign for my door so now anyone coming into the apartment will know which room is mine (if the door happens to be closed which it rarely is). We also got a dish drying rack because I personally hate drying dishes and it was cheap so yay! No more drying dishes!
Alright it's half 11 (that means 11:30 I just learned) so bedtime!
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