Monday, August 2
I finished redoing my essay on the way to school. I got an A on my speaking exam! During lunch, Matt and I bought käsebrot and my chocolate milk was way too chocolatey, so I put water in it. I checked my email and was ticked by some rude things written to me, but after I wrote back, I decided not to send it. I didn't want to stoop. Tanya got ANOTHER job! No way - at NY & Co. She's decided to transfer to BYU - whoa - and wants me to come also (we had talked about doing that for just a semester). Liz wasn't in class. I wonder if she was still in Amsterdam.
After class, we went back to Sparkasse and Alexandra wasn't there, but another lady let me exchange the traveler's checks. Then we got to the Exerzier Playa and couldn't find an electric store for an adaptor for Matt. We bought: pork chops, potatoes, worchestershire sauce, sugar, flour, and gravy mix or something that looks like it. (Matt and I said we would make dinner to show our gratitude, but I felt like it was also to save me from withering away and dying.) After we arrived back, I called Mom and got cooking advice. We pan-fried the meat and made gravy and potatoes, not using the gravy mix (I hate gravy mix). We couldn't figure out if they had brown sugar or not, so we didn't make the cookies. It was really good, but I don't know what my host family thought. My hostmom didn't know what gravy was, and they have big lunches, not dinners. Then we made the cookies with too many guesstimations: measurements, close ingredients, celsius temp, time, etc. They were good, but they didn't taste like chocolate chip cookies. The chocolate chips we made by cutting up a candy bar. I walked Matt to the bus stop and he got the bike seat to go down so I don't have to jump onto the seat by pushing off the pedal anymore! It was funny because I told him that my hostmom and hostsister couldn't fix it, and then I loosened it, and he just put his hands up in the air and thwacked! down on it, and that's all it took.