Today was a pretty productive day, but I still have tons to do this weekend! I don't have class on Fridays, but today I had to meet my printmaking class at the Istituto Nazionale della Grafica. Our professor told us it was close to the Trevi Fountain, which is a pretty major landmark. It should be really easy to get there, but I tried to find it earlier with a friend and it took us forever to find it despite the signs on every street corner. Today I figured I'd have no trouble since I have been there plenty of times by now. I left myself plenty of time just in case, but of course I got incredibly lost! I started to panic since I was running out of time and had to ask all these police officers, nuns, and souvenir store workers how to get there. I finally found it but was 15 min late. I felt really bad, but I still saw some really awesome prints so that was good, and I don't think my professor was too upset. Afterwards, I was a little worn out so I stopped at McDonald's to get fries and a coke. This McDonald's was so intense. It was huge and had a coffee bar with pastries and everything, a gelato area, and then a long corridor leads you to the hamburger area. The fries were really delicious, I think they are higher quality than what you would find in the US.
After that mission, I went to this specialty store called Castroni and got brown rice, since that is hard to find. That store sells different "ethnic foods" other than Italian because you can't buy stuff like peanut butter in normal stores.
AND, I got a new memory card for the camera, so now it works! I am going to the Vatican tomorrow so I will take lots of cool pictures but for now here are a few from around my apartment.
This is the view from my balcony, very glamorous, I know.
This is my crappy kitchen, you have to light the burners on the stove manually.
And finally, a view of our lovely bathroom. I am still not used to the weird toilet. Also, we have a bidet. I haven't tried it but I have heard from others that they don't work.
I'll definitely be putting up more!
2 comments:
hey paul and i have to light our stove manually! that's pretty sad. i'm glad to see your pics - keep them coming!
Haha, I love the different MacDonald's internationally. Here it is about the same price as the US, which means it is expensive for food by HK standards. anyways, I am fond of HK because it is the only city I don't get lost in as easily, since there are so many hills I just try to remember what is uphill and what is downhill. and I am excited for your pics. The ones I saw on fbook are cool.
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