here is sept.1....

Saturday September 1

Today was really nice. After spending more than I wanted to last not (which was only 15 Euro but I wasn’t planning on going out! After all that’s why we bought groceries!), I decided to sit out on the trip to the beach.

I think everyone is trying to do everything too quick. They want to go EVERYWHERE ad do EVERYTHING but I think they are acting like they only have a week to do it. I want to go everywhere and do everything but in its own time. Not everyday. After all, I came here for ME not to go out and see everyone all the time. I need to be alone.

So I slept in a little, got up around 10, took a shower and decided to go find a park or something to sit and read. I walked for a while and ended up just walking around places that I thought were going to be parks but ending up being just government gardens or something. As I started heading back to my apt, I saw that right down the street from me there was a little park!!! DUMMY!

The park was nothing special. Just a few benches and some grass but it was awesome to sit there and read for a couple hours. After relized I was hungry I stated heading home again but decided to go into this open market thing in this warehouse. It was AMAZING in there!!!! Everything was super cheap and there was like TONS and TONS of like vendor shop things (its hard to describe without being there, I’ll try and take pictures next time) with fruits, veggies, meat, cheese, and other such items. I bought a chicken breast, green beans, two tomotos and a huge thing of iced tea for only 4 euros! That’s even cheaper than America!

I went put my future diner in the fridge, and made myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch. I ate and then started to knit while watching som funturama on my mac.

Then I heard the door ring, and it was Mike, Sarah’s boyfriend. Sarah had called him and asked him to come from sienna to help her with the money situation that she had going on, but because mike doesn’t have a phone, she could tell him that she went to western union and that she was fine for now….. oh, and that she went to the beach.

So mike and I hung out for a while, grabbed a bite to eat then walked around the city for a while until sarah and them got back. After they got back we made this HUGE meal with chicken, pasta, peas, rice and bread and ate all of it with some wine. It was SO yummy.

They decided they wanted to go out and convinced me to go too. We drank wine here (thank god) and went out to the Fish Bar (eh) for like 5 min, then were going to go to JJ’s but decided on Astor again. We went downstairs and danced, and after a while, my partner-in-crime and I decided that we wanted to go and so we left. This time though, we didn’t get lost!! HA!

It is just so beautiful here. Its hard to describe. There is just so much to see, and there is beauty all around you. The only thing I hate is the LOUD noise on the street at night. The street cleaner is so loud you think the world I ending. Its outrageous.