Settling in...

No pictures this time. Dr. Leach, Eve, and I had some meetings today and got introduced to the library. I still have almost no idea what I'm supposed to be doing, other than the one task of collecting all the readings for the seminar and putting them on the reserve shelf. Oh well, I'll figure it out.

Today was a shopping day, which came with a bit of sticker shock. Dr. Leach showed me the hardware store near the Academy, where I bought a knife, toilet paper, a night light, a corkscrew, and a Vape ("VA-pay"). The last object is something that would probably make the FDA throw up their hands in horror, but I am very glad to have it. It's a plug in diffuser with some kind of mosquito-killing and repelling ingredient little cards which heat up and vaporize while the thing is plugged in. While it smells a bit odd, it's much better than going to bed with bugspray on. I got 4 mosquito bites within my first 10 minutes back in the apartment, but none since I plugged it in!

I also went to another grocery store to get some salt (which I forgot last time) and walked out with a bunch of other stuff: yogurt, bread, butter, some lettuce, some plums, a little thing of milk, a package of apricot filled pastries for breakfast, a little bit of smoked mozzarella, and a big bottle of water to keep in the fridge and refill.

So all in all, that cost me about 25 Euros, 5 more than my budget for the day. But some of the stuff I've bought in the past two days, I won't have to buy again before I leave (the olive oil, the nightlight) and some will last several days at least (the juice, the salad).

Now I am going to attempt to cook my own dinner...