June 19, 2011
I consider myself many things, but "domestic" isn't really a title I can boast. However, last week I moved out of my host family's home and into a teacher's guesthouse. That means it is now my responsibility to cook and clean and generally care for myself like a big girl. Oh boy… this is gonna be a bit of a challenge. In a week alone, this is what I've learned:
- Milk goes sour in 2 days time if you don't have a refrigerator.
- Pasta noodles are darn cheep, but apricots taste way better.
- You can't bake cookies on a stove (I don't have a working oven either.)
- It's a really good thing my mom taught me to fry a chicken starting with the whole chicken because I'll probably never find frozen chicken breasts at the bazaar- but I have some rudimentary knowledge of how to cut the thing whole.
- If you cook with garlic, it keeps flies out of your house at night.
- When they don't have the correct change at the shop, they will give you boxes of matches to make up the difference. I LOVE THIS!!! When you use a gas stove, matches are infinitely valuable!
All this and it's only been a week… good gracious! Think of where I'll be in a year!
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