I got up early to
work on homework, blog entries, and uploading pictures. We’re using four
devices to take pictures, so making sure we check-in periodically and reconcile
our trip is important.
Then Gooligan fixed
us some breakfast: scrambled eggs and bread and cream cheese, while I threw
some clothes in the wash. The house was completely lacking in any
oil or salt whatsoever, though. If Gooligan and I were in charge of hosting
someone, we’d provide some basic seasonings minimum.
Since we had no
internet, we hung up our clothes to dry and we walked towards downtown. On our
way, we stopped to get some tea and deli chicken for lunch and checked our
emails (in the hope that our property manager had emailed us back with the wifi
password). He hadn’t, so we caught the bus the rest of the way downtown and got
off at the bus station to get some more free wifi. We posted some photos, I
updated my blog, and we got in touch with my best friend from fourth grade,
Liz, who we’re on our way to see right now! It’s been twelve years since we’ve
seen each other!
After our stop at
the bus station, we ventured to a Guinness shop to buy some souvenirs for my
brother.
Then we headed home.
The buses here are so confusing. The fares are dependent on how long your
journey is but there is no reliable way to figure that out without calculating
it via their online app (no help to us since we’re offline on our phones 99% of
the time) or asking the bus driver. And then you have a million people in line
behind you, waiting impatiently as you dig out an odd assortment of coins from
your tiny coin purse, peering at each one, since you’ve used three different
types of currency in the last week and are not sure what each one is worth yet.
For better or worse,
it turned out that we now had the apartment to ourselves! Gooligan fixed us a
feast: bread, soup, couscous, and more scrambled eggs. After we ate, we packed
up our still-damp clothes, curled up, watched some television, and went to bed,
after setting about a million alarms for five in the morning the next day.
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