Second day of classes today. Unfortunately, my first class is at 9am and the others aren't until 13:30 and 15:15! So I have this long long break in the middle of the day. And I was good today and finished all my homework up to this point so hopefully I won't fall behind on my readings. I've forgotten all this time to tell people about the bells! We've gotten used to it, but bells ring every 15 minutes here to announce the time. Its going to be weird coming back to the States and not knowing the time every 15 minutes. However, there is a bell tower near our apartment that goes crazy sometimes. My hunch is that it happens at noon, but the bells don't stop ringing. It goes on and on and on for probably like 3-4 minutes straight. Different story: I was at the grocery store yesterday buying milk since our apartment goes through a liter of milk a day. First off, I could no figure out which milk to buy; one had a picture of a little girl and said something like Interno on it while the other had a grown woman and something like Scermo on it. I made the executive decision to buy the one with the grown woman since we were more like her in size. I think it ended up being skim milk. While I was in line buying the milk a little boy was in front of me being held by his mother. He was screaming his head off and pointing to some coffee. His mom tried to appease him by getting something for him. That stopped the temper-tantrum for about 30 seconds. When it started up again, another little boy, probably a year or two older than screaming boy, tugged on his shirt, put his hand up to his mouth and gave him a very very dirty look to quiet him. At this point I was laughing on the inside; I started to actually laugh but everyone else in Coop looked stern and unamused, so I tried to keep it in as much as possible. I'm actually not sure if he ever stopped screaming. And the last and final story; its not like a fact really. The garbage trucks here are TINY! They look like Tonka trucks. Everytime I'm with Erica and Julie they crack some joke about it, and I can't help but laugh. They're so tiny!!
2 comments:
Okay Kate...I think I know why you are going through so much milk!!! I am buying much less --- It just might be that Julie is your culprit. :-)
===Julie's Mom (Chris)
p.s. Looking forward to meeting all of you next week!
haha I can relate to the bells. The bell tower in Healy does the same thing every fifteen minutes and goes crazy at noon and then at 6 for at least two minutes. Sounds like random clangs right???
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