Sleeping in!

I have very weird sleep issues to say the least, one of my fears about coming here was that I was not going to be able to sleep, but since my very first night I have slept really good. However, I am not able to sleep in I try and try but either, the ducks outside are quaking or some other bird is making quite the ruckus or I just purely can not sleep. This morning however I decided to grace the world with my presence at 9:00am and it was beautiful.

This morning I have the AgriScience welcome at 11:30. I am excited to see what they have to say and most likely meet some people in my classes.

Oh so exciting, most of you probably saw the pics on Facebook, but my room is now my room. I got all my decoration, pictures etc up and it feels rather homey. Yesterday Terra and I went to the thrift store to try and find some decorations. The thrift store was our choice because I don't want to spend a ton of money on decorations, I am throwing away in 4 months. I got a cute kind of blue paisley saucer for my rings and then this yellow bottle (message in a bottle status) and some fake flowers to put in it. The bottle though was rather dusty so I filled the sink with warm soapy water. Wrong decision! All the yellow coloring started scraping off the bottle. So I stopped scrubbing it patted it dry and now it is more of a marbling of yellow and clear glass. Kind of looks meant to be that way.

Most importantly I got a bicycle yesterday, it is a white mountainish bike nothing to special. I got it through the green bike trust on campus. It is $50 to rent it for the semester. I am horrible at riding bikes and do not have a good track record for bike theft, so I am keeping my fingers crossed. Crazy!! you have to wear a helmet here, I am half tempted to go all out and get some knee pads to go with it. This is how the helmet shopping went down yesterday at the K-Mart.

We get to the helmet section, the helmets run from $20 to $40. We do not want to spend a lot of money so we began to discuss the pros and cons of each helmet choice. Including reason that included the fashion of each helmet. After a good fifteen minutes of discussing how each helmet could either aid or harm our fashion sense we laughed and realized how fashionable does any bike helmet look. We ended up buying the cheapest matching blue helmets. Now if your lucky maybe you will get a pic of me in that flashy helmet.

Yesterday I also ate at the best Turkish place, as of now this will be the food I get crazy Jane cravings for. I ordered a small kebab and it was pretty much a foot long. How I wish I was eating that right now.

During the writing of this blog, Jake skyped me so I took a break in writing and talked to him where we got on the subject the metric system. He so lovingly tried for a good 10 minutes to try and explain to me how many pounds were in a kilo and vice a versa. Embarrassingly, still do not think I get it.

Some advice: do not drink sparkling kiwi fruit wine, could barely get through one glass it taste like grass. Well love you all Jane

Here are a few pics, for those who do not have Facebook.