It appears that today I will be talking about food. This afternoon I realized that I bought a considerable amount of food at the grocery store, and then I'm leaving Wednesday for the weekend. Now I have to be creative in trying to eat everything that is perishable without pigging out. Should be fun. Considering I normally only eat dinner at home on school days and take a piece of fruit to school for lunch, hopefully I can work it out. Actually tomorrow and Tuesday I have classes at noon, so I'll just have an early lunch I guess.
The other day I borrowed a recipe that I found online for Spanish rice, but changed it up a bit to suit my preferences. Nothing big, I left out the chicken broth and chili powder (because I can't find chili powder), used cumin and the Dutch grocery store version of "chili powder" (it says it's Mexican style chili powder, but it seems rather fragrant-free to me and that's just wrong. Plus I don't think I could taste it at all in the rice, though I didn't add much) and swapped out the canned tomato for a chopped fresh tomato. I made that to put on nachos along with taco meat and avocado. Goes pretty good in a tortilla too. Also, in the way of nachos, I was sad that they don't have regular tortilla chips and was resigned to using Doritos, and while I was at the store looking at the 8 different flavors of Doritos that I could chose from, I noticed they had a plain flavored. Yes! Regular tortilla chips, Doritos style!
So now I have this zucchini, half a green pepper, some avocado, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and mushrooms that I need to eat before I leave Wednesday. Things that go great in ramen noodles. I decided to experiment a bit tonight and cracked an egg into my ramen while it was simmering, it was so good. Why did no one show me that earlier? Might have to do that more often.
So Wednesday (as I said before) I am leaving for Paris and Disneyland. Since Tessa couldn't go, Simona's boyfriend might be going in her place. Which would be good because then Tessa can get her money back. Also good because I hate going to an amusement park with an odd number of people. Other than that, I don't know how it will be because I've only met the guy once or twice. We all get to share one hotel room though.
I think I had more to say, but I took a 2 hour break in the middle of writing this and now I've completely spaced anything else I might have wanted to write. Goodnight!
2012-09-23
2012-09-20
Update
I can't ever come up with creative titles. And to be honest, maybe titles are a little overrated. I think from now on I should just title all my posts "Update" unless they are important, in which case I will title it something along the lines of "Important" though I doubt anything will ever be important enough to require that. It needs a title so you have something to click on to isolate the post, but other than that I am too boring for titles these days.
I apologize for having not posted recently, I've been a bit caught up in school. Thursdays are my days that I finish at 13:00 so I have plenty of time to post today. Actually both of these last two weeks that teacher has let us go at a decently early time, so Thursdays are even shorter still. However, for some reason Thursdays are the days that it is hardest to wake up in the morning. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are the three days that I have class starting at 8:45, and for some reason Wednesday is fine, and Friday is fine, but last Thursday I was 45 minutes late and today I made it on time but I could barely stay awake through my first class. (In my second class I had a chocolate espresso drink that may have kept me awake, either that or I just like the class better. I think I just like the class better. Caffeine has never affected me much.) I suppose this is probably because on Wednesday, I've just spend Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday sleeping in to a more decent hour, and Friday I've gotten up early enough the last two days to actually go to bed earlier the night before... Yes, I've decided that all makes sense.
Last Friday night, my whole class got together at someone's apartment for a few hours before we all went to the International Pub together. That was a lot of fun. Also, the International Pub had a special (I think it's every Friday night but I'm unsure) where from 22:00 to 23:30, you pay €10 to walk in the door and then you get unlimited drinks until 23:30. A few people didn't think they'd be drinking €10 worth (including me) because the drinks are normally €1 (which is already extremely cheap) so instead the four of us went to Hannah's and played pool in this huge common area that her apartment building has, before we headed to the pub. It was a very good night. For most of us. Poor Mark lost his phone, and poor Emils was apparently accosted by some guys who beat him up and took his phone and wallet (this was after we all split off to go home, so I don't know the whole story).
On Saturday Tessa, Jenn, Simona and I met up at the beach and went bowling. Which was very fun. I've decided I should go bowling more often. Most of us were getting so many gutter balls that we decided gutter balls are the goal and if you end up with a high score then you probably fail at failing. It was a lot of fun. Now one week from today we will be in Disneyland Paris. With Jenn's family. Actually I think it ended up that Tessa can't go, because she has a test on that Friday. That is extremely saddening because we should really all be there. And we all already paid, and it's a little too late for refunds. I also feel bad for missing school to go to Disneyland but I don't think it's an opportunity I would like to miss, and I intend to make it a point to be in every single one of the rest of my classes for the rest of this semester. (I was going to say for the rest of this term, but that doesn't seem adequate enough. The term ends the first week of November, the semester ends the second week of January, or some time around there. The last day of term 2 exams is my birthday. Yay! Guess that means I can party to celebrate a completed semester and to celebrate my birthday. The twenty-first, too.)
Okay, last I wanted to show you where my bike lives during the school day. The reason for this is that it's not something I've seen very much in the States, so I find it very interesting and I thought you might as well.
Welcome to the bicycle parking. It is situated in the basement of the school. How does one get a bike into a basement? Well...
Ramps and stairs. Which, by the way, I really hate. The stairs are so far apart, it's hard to lead a bike up a metal ramp while walking awkwardly up stairs that force you to step unevenly. (One step flat, one step up, one step flat... etc. I hate that even without a bike.) I suppose it makes sense because if you are coming downstairs and the ramp it too steep, it would be difficult to keep up. Whatever, though. (Sorry that the picture is blurry, I was balancing my bike and my phone and my bag.)
And for those of you that don't know what my school looks like... It's a very neat-looking building. (I can't remember if I've posted from the inside...)
This is the inside of the Ovaal, which is the building I have all of my classes in. There are two other buildings, although they are connected to the Ovaal, so you can get anywhere in the school by walking in the front doors of the Ovaal (or, I suppose, coming up the stairs from the basement bike parking). The skyways all lead to the Slinger, and then you can get to the Strip from both the Slinger and the Ovaal. I never have to enter any building but the Ovaal, so navigation in the other two doesn't really concern me.
That picture is taken from the 4th floor (in American terms, think 5th floor). One detail that I really love is the internal staircases that you can see on the other side over there, if you look closely, that go between the 3rd, 4th and 5th floor. There are more like that behind the aula (that's the big auditorium which is inside the green cylinder that you can barely see to the left in that picture. Also, in this older picture I stole from Sara's facebook you can see the staircases that comes down beside the aula, and those are nice too). There are 3 sets of elevators, and each set of elevators is accompanied by a triangle staircase in the back (yea, that's not really clear, but I'm not sure how better to explain). Since the whole building is a big oval, if you know that your next class is in 3.71 and you take the wrong elevator, luckily all you have to do is keep walking in a big circle and you'll find it eventually. Though after two weeks, I've learned that if my classroom is #.7# (as most of them are for some reason), I need to go to the far set of elevators/stairs, go up and take a right. Easy to figure out. I really like my school. Really.
Also, I have determined that I am definitely happier now than I was a year ago, or two years ago.
In other news, like I said I get out of classes early on Thursdays (today, we were released at about 12:15). I started writing this post at 14:30. Before that, I came home from school, then went to Subway for lunch to reward myself for not eating out this week (I know. It's probably lame to reward myself with the thing that I am awarding myself for not doing. Might be a step backwards. Oh well, I really needed Subway). Then I went to Blokker and spent €40 on things I probably could have done without, but wanted (a cheese grater, a garlic press, a frying pan, a bigger cutting board, a bowl, a serving spoon because all we have is flat wooden spoons, and a couple storage containers for things like rice and tea bags because we have ants). Then I came home and cleaned the apartment because it is my week to do so. Thursdays are probably the days that I will aim to find an 8 hour job. After, of course, I go to the municipality and get my BSN and residence permit. I don't want to work Fridays or Saturdays because I want my weekends free. Sundays, stores aren't open long enough to matter. I can only work 10 hours a week total, so I guess I'll see what I can find.
I said the bikes would be last, and then I went on to write an entire second half to the post. Oops. Sorry. Well, I'm done now. Finally. I guess this is what happens when I haven't posted in a while...
I apologize for having not posted recently, I've been a bit caught up in school. Thursdays are my days that I finish at 13:00 so I have plenty of time to post today. Actually both of these last two weeks that teacher has let us go at a decently early time, so Thursdays are even shorter still. However, for some reason Thursdays are the days that it is hardest to wake up in the morning. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are the three days that I have class starting at 8:45, and for some reason Wednesday is fine, and Friday is fine, but last Thursday I was 45 minutes late and today I made it on time but I could barely stay awake through my first class. (In my second class I had a chocolate espresso drink that may have kept me awake, either that or I just like the class better. I think I just like the class better. Caffeine has never affected me much.) I suppose this is probably because on Wednesday, I've just spend Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday sleeping in to a more decent hour, and Friday I've gotten up early enough the last two days to actually go to bed earlier the night before... Yes, I've decided that all makes sense.
Last Friday night, my whole class got together at someone's apartment for a few hours before we all went to the International Pub together. That was a lot of fun. Also, the International Pub had a special (I think it's every Friday night but I'm unsure) where from 22:00 to 23:30, you pay €10 to walk in the door and then you get unlimited drinks until 23:30. A few people didn't think they'd be drinking €10 worth (including me) because the drinks are normally €1 (which is already extremely cheap) so instead the four of us went to Hannah's and played pool in this huge common area that her apartment building has, before we headed to the pub. It was a very good night. For most of us. Poor Mark lost his phone, and poor Emils was apparently accosted by some guys who beat him up and took his phone and wallet (this was after we all split off to go home, so I don't know the whole story).
On Saturday Tessa, Jenn, Simona and I met up at the beach and went bowling. Which was very fun. I've decided I should go bowling more often. Most of us were getting so many gutter balls that we decided gutter balls are the goal and if you end up with a high score then you probably fail at failing. It was a lot of fun. Now one week from today we will be in Disneyland Paris. With Jenn's family. Actually I think it ended up that Tessa can't go, because she has a test on that Friday. That is extremely saddening because we should really all be there. And we all already paid, and it's a little too late for refunds. I also feel bad for missing school to go to Disneyland but I don't think it's an opportunity I would like to miss, and I intend to make it a point to be in every single one of the rest of my classes for the rest of this semester. (I was going to say for the rest of this term, but that doesn't seem adequate enough. The term ends the first week of November, the semester ends the second week of January, or some time around there. The last day of term 2 exams is my birthday. Yay! Guess that means I can party to celebrate a completed semester and to celebrate my birthday. The twenty-first, too.)
Okay, last I wanted to show you where my bike lives during the school day. The reason for this is that it's not something I've seen very much in the States, so I find it very interesting and I thought you might as well.
Welcome to the bicycle parking. It is situated in the basement of the school. How does one get a bike into a basement? Well...
Ramps and stairs. Which, by the way, I really hate. The stairs are so far apart, it's hard to lead a bike up a metal ramp while walking awkwardly up stairs that force you to step unevenly. (One step flat, one step up, one step flat... etc. I hate that even without a bike.) I suppose it makes sense because if you are coming downstairs and the ramp it too steep, it would be difficult to keep up. Whatever, though. (Sorry that the picture is blurry, I was balancing my bike and my phone and my bag.)
And for those of you that don't know what my school looks like... It's a very neat-looking building. (I can't remember if I've posted from the inside...)
This is the inside of the Ovaal, which is the building I have all of my classes in. There are two other buildings, although they are connected to the Ovaal, so you can get anywhere in the school by walking in the front doors of the Ovaal (or, I suppose, coming up the stairs from the basement bike parking). The skyways all lead to the Slinger, and then you can get to the Strip from both the Slinger and the Ovaal. I never have to enter any building but the Ovaal, so navigation in the other two doesn't really concern me.
That picture is taken from the 4th floor (in American terms, think 5th floor). One detail that I really love is the internal staircases that you can see on the other side over there, if you look closely, that go between the 3rd, 4th and 5th floor. There are more like that behind the aula (that's the big auditorium which is inside the green cylinder that you can barely see to the left in that picture. Also, in this older picture I stole from Sara's facebook you can see the staircases that comes down beside the aula, and those are nice too). There are 3 sets of elevators, and each set of elevators is accompanied by a triangle staircase in the back (yea, that's not really clear, but I'm not sure how better to explain). Since the whole building is a big oval, if you know that your next class is in 3.71 and you take the wrong elevator, luckily all you have to do is keep walking in a big circle and you'll find it eventually. Though after two weeks, I've learned that if my classroom is #.7# (as most of them are for some reason), I need to go to the far set of elevators/stairs, go up and take a right. Easy to figure out. I really like my school. Really.
Also, I have determined that I am definitely happier now than I was a year ago, or two years ago.
In other news, like I said I get out of classes early on Thursdays (today, we were released at about 12:15). I started writing this post at 14:30. Before that, I came home from school, then went to Subway for lunch to reward myself for not eating out this week (I know. It's probably lame to reward myself with the thing that I am awarding myself for not doing. Might be a step backwards. Oh well, I really needed Subway). Then I went to Blokker and spent €40 on things I probably could have done without, but wanted (a cheese grater, a garlic press, a frying pan, a bigger cutting board, a bowl, a serving spoon because all we have is flat wooden spoons, and a couple storage containers for things like rice and tea bags because we have ants). Then I came home and cleaned the apartment because it is my week to do so. Thursdays are probably the days that I will aim to find an 8 hour job. After, of course, I go to the municipality and get my BSN and residence permit. I don't want to work Fridays or Saturdays because I want my weekends free. Sundays, stores aren't open long enough to matter. I can only work 10 hours a week total, so I guess I'll see what I can find.
I said the bikes would be last, and then I went on to write an entire second half to the post. Oops. Sorry. Well, I'm done now. Finally. I guess this is what happens when I haven't posted in a while...
2012-09-13
Oddity
Rode my bike to school today. School really isn't that far, riding my bike to school shouldn't be a big deal. It kind of is though, I'm not accustomed to riding a bike... My legs were already tired halfway there and old people on bicycles were passing me. Cool stuff. And I tried to get hit by a few cars. On the way home was much better. Didn't jump in front of any cars. Didn't get passed by any old people. Really the only reason I took my bike today is because I woke up at the exact time class was starting, so I felt the need to hurry. I've guess I've been finding excuses to avoid my bike all week... Riding a bike around here is scary stuff, give me a break.
So oddly enough, I think my favorite two classes for this 6 weeks are going to be Intercultural Communications and Oral Presentations. Those were the ones I was dreading most (along with intro to research skills, but that one turns out to be just as bad as it sounds). My intercultural communications teacher is from New Zealand, she's very amusing, it's a huge class (I think a combination of several classes) and apparently we're just going to spend the term talking about cultural differences in communication habits (I guess maybe you can get that from the name of the class). Does not sound too bad to me. Oral presentations... That one sounded horrible to me. We have to come up with a thing to research and give a presentation about, like a business presentation type of thing, on a product, company or research. I'm not sure why that class sounds so interesting to me but it does.
I can't wait for winter. I like cold weather. Well, I like sweaters and hot chocolate and coming in from the cold and snuggling up in bed at night with a big blanket. Too bad the weather here is so mild. Mild summers, mild winters, you don't see much of the extremes. During my introduction week, we had a little seminar to learn about the Netherlands (it was nothing I didn't already know though) and the teacher for that told us that if ever, during our stay here, they actually host the elfstedentocht (eleven cities tour) we have to skip school and go. The elfstedentocht is this thing they have in the northern part of the country, when all the rivers, canals and lakes freeze over enough that the ice is suitable for skating. They have a speed skating match and a leisure skating tour both of which follow the same course which goes through eleven cities in Friesland. The course itself is about 120 miles long. The last time the ice was suitable enough was 1997. Who knows if I could afford to miss school anyway, but I just thought it was funny that one of our teachers even, was telling us to skip school for it.
Today I am going to the post office to mail round one of post cards, and then I'm going to go to the store and buy instant noodles because even if they're not the same as the ramen noodles that I love, they're still noodles and noodles sound so good right now.
So oddly enough, I think my favorite two classes for this 6 weeks are going to be Intercultural Communications and Oral Presentations. Those were the ones I was dreading most (along with intro to research skills, but that one turns out to be just as bad as it sounds). My intercultural communications teacher is from New Zealand, she's very amusing, it's a huge class (I think a combination of several classes) and apparently we're just going to spend the term talking about cultural differences in communication habits (I guess maybe you can get that from the name of the class). Does not sound too bad to me. Oral presentations... That one sounded horrible to me. We have to come up with a thing to research and give a presentation about, like a business presentation type of thing, on a product, company or research. I'm not sure why that class sounds so interesting to me but it does.
I can't wait for winter. I like cold weather. Well, I like sweaters and hot chocolate and coming in from the cold and snuggling up in bed at night with a big blanket. Too bad the weather here is so mild. Mild summers, mild winters, you don't see much of the extremes. During my introduction week, we had a little seminar to learn about the Netherlands (it was nothing I didn't already know though) and the teacher for that told us that if ever, during our stay here, they actually host the elfstedentocht (eleven cities tour) we have to skip school and go. The elfstedentocht is this thing they have in the northern part of the country, when all the rivers, canals and lakes freeze over enough that the ice is suitable for skating. They have a speed skating match and a leisure skating tour both of which follow the same course which goes through eleven cities in Friesland. The course itself is about 120 miles long. The last time the ice was suitable enough was 1997. Who knows if I could afford to miss school anyway, but I just thought it was funny that one of our teachers even, was telling us to skip school for it.
Today I am going to the post office to mail round one of post cards, and then I'm going to go to the store and buy instant noodles because even if they're not the same as the ramen noodles that I love, they're still noodles and noodles sound so good right now.
2012-09-08
Classes
Right, so classes start Monday. I'm ready. They say our schedules should be complete today but they keep changing them so I guess we'll see. I made a prettified version for you. The blank squares don't apply to me.
They did switch me to the three year track, which is exciting and worrisome at the same time. Means I have to keep on top of things really well, because it supposedly moves at a much quicker pace than the four year track. Understandable, you have to squeeze a four year degree into just three years.
My new class is okay, I don't really dislike any of them. I just don't know any of them, either. My old class seems like they were more friendly, but two days probably isn't long enough to be able to judge that. My new "educational career supervisor" is nice though. We all had to schedule interviews with our ECS so that she could get a feel for how we operate or something. So that if any problems crop up over the year, they kind of have a background on us to understand what's going on. I don't really know... She wanted me to tell her about myself, how I ended up here, what my study habits typically are, how my living situation is, if I plan on getting a job, etc. But she was fairly easy to talk to, and she seemed to think I will have a good handle on my studies this year, so I hope she is right.
As it turns out, the only third language offered in the first year is Spanish, and since I told her I have been studying Spanish for four years (and it is on my high school transcript as well) she didn't think they would let me take beginners Spanish. I will be taking Dutch, advanced French, and then the other electives that are available for anyone not taking a third language. She said I will have an opportunity next year to add in either Russian or Italian. Think I will definitely go for Russian. I don't really mind that I can't take Spanish, I guess. I had already committed to dropping it anyway, before I knew that this program allows you to learn several foreign languages.
The weather has been extremely nice the past few days, so I think tonight or tomorrow I will go to the beach. It was cold and overcast all the week before, I should take advantage of this nice weather. I finally went and fetched my bike from in front of the apartment I was staying at over the summer, so I could try riding out to the beach again. Maybe when I'm not sick anymore though, or my lungs might commit suicide just to spite me... I should probably be worried about the fact that my bike is not currently chained to anything but rather leaning against a tree with the back tire locked to the frame, but I just can't bring myself to really care. It's an old bike. I doubt anyone would be interested in it.
They did switch me to the three year track, which is exciting and worrisome at the same time. Means I have to keep on top of things really well, because it supposedly moves at a much quicker pace than the four year track. Understandable, you have to squeeze a four year degree into just three years.
My new class is okay, I don't really dislike any of them. I just don't know any of them, either. My old class seems like they were more friendly, but two days probably isn't long enough to be able to judge that. My new "educational career supervisor" is nice though. We all had to schedule interviews with our ECS so that she could get a feel for how we operate or something. So that if any problems crop up over the year, they kind of have a background on us to understand what's going on. I don't really know... She wanted me to tell her about myself, how I ended up here, what my study habits typically are, how my living situation is, if I plan on getting a job, etc. But she was fairly easy to talk to, and she seemed to think I will have a good handle on my studies this year, so I hope she is right.
As it turns out, the only third language offered in the first year is Spanish, and since I told her I have been studying Spanish for four years (and it is on my high school transcript as well) she didn't think they would let me take beginners Spanish. I will be taking Dutch, advanced French, and then the other electives that are available for anyone not taking a third language. She said I will have an opportunity next year to add in either Russian or Italian. Think I will definitely go for Russian. I don't really mind that I can't take Spanish, I guess. I had already committed to dropping it anyway, before I knew that this program allows you to learn several foreign languages.
The weather has been extremely nice the past few days, so I think tonight or tomorrow I will go to the beach. It was cold and overcast all the week before, I should take advantage of this nice weather. I finally went and fetched my bike from in front of the apartment I was staying at over the summer, so I could try riding out to the beach again. Maybe when I'm not sick anymore though, or my lungs might commit suicide just to spite me... I should probably be worried about the fact that my bike is not currently chained to anything but rather leaning against a tree with the back tire locked to the frame, but I just can't bring myself to really care. It's an old bike. I doubt anyone would be interested in it.
2012-09-05
:D
On 5/9/2012 9:16, Hietala, J.R.E. wrote:
Dear Angie,I can you can enter the ES3. Your new class is ES3 -1A and your supervisor Marije Minkman.Kind regards,____________________________________________
Jenna Hietala
YESSSS!!!
2012-09-01
Just Pictures
All I have are pictures today. I went to Amsterdam with that InterAccess group after all, but it was pretty boring. Probably a waste of €20 (for the train ticket). I don't really mind though.
Anyway, on the way home I was playing with my phone camera. They're probably not very good because they were all taken in motion, and it's really just the view out of a train, but I personally liked that view, so here you go.
This train tried to ruin my picture. I thought that it had, until I uploaded it and realized it wasn't actually a picture of the blurry side of a passing train. I took this picture for the pretty blue flowers...
Oh. Only place I took a picture in A'dam.
Yay, train tracks and a bit of green.
Station Leiden Centraal... I didn't think I got that one either, apparently my phone's camera is faster than I assumed.
A few buildings of The Hague, from a distance.
My stop, Den Haag Centraal.
I'm sad that this picture came out so blurry...
This one too, although that just makes it look really cool.
Den Haag Centraal, forever under construction. It was when I was here in December, too. That says exit. No it doesn't, it says "uitgang," but it means exit.
Pretty painted pillars.
He has Italian ice cream. With whipped cream. And a bicycle. He's on the tram tracks, too.
That very blurry sign says they are searching for a part time worker. Wish I had my Dutch social security number and school schedule already... I wouldn't mind having that job.
Grocery store. I don't think I've been in this one, I think it's pretty small. There's one that is closer and bigger. Might be worth visiting just to see what they have that's different, though.
Tram tunnel through a building.
Tram. They just put new advertisements on some of the trams (though not this one), the entire things are covered. They're very pretty. Usually it's only tram line 1 though, and this one would be either line 9 or 15. Some of the line 1 trams are blue now. I'd like to know how they put on those giant stickers so perfectly... I think I stuck and unstuck the vinyl sticker to my phone a million times before it was straight.
Big Chinese restaurant, which is always packed... So I bet their food is really good. I'd like to go there...
Bike signal and walking signals... Oh, and you see the traffic signal lights are right at the stop rather than across the intersection. You can also see the bike path crossing to the left of the pedestrian crosswalk...
One of the city parking garages, right across the street from my apartment... If you walk behind it on that street right there to the right, you're in Chinatown.
.end PhotoDump
Anyway, on the way home I was playing with my phone camera. They're probably not very good because they were all taken in motion, and it's really just the view out of a train, but I personally liked that view, so here you go.
This train tried to ruin my picture. I thought that it had, until I uploaded it and realized it wasn't actually a picture of the blurry side of a passing train. I took this picture for the pretty blue flowers...
Oh. Only place I took a picture in A'dam.
Yay, train tracks and a bit of green.
Station Leiden Centraal... I didn't think I got that one either, apparently my phone's camera is faster than I assumed.
A few buildings of The Hague, from a distance.
My stop, Den Haag Centraal.
I'm sad that this picture came out so blurry...
This one too, although that just makes it look really cool.
Den Haag Centraal, forever under construction. It was when I was here in December, too. That says exit. No it doesn't, it says "uitgang," but it means exit.
Pretty painted pillars.
He has Italian ice cream. With whipped cream. And a bicycle. He's on the tram tracks, too.
That very blurry sign says they are searching for a part time worker. Wish I had my Dutch social security number and school schedule already... I wouldn't mind having that job.
Grocery store. I don't think I've been in this one, I think it's pretty small. There's one that is closer and bigger. Might be worth visiting just to see what they have that's different, though.
Tram tunnel through a building.
Tram. They just put new advertisements on some of the trams (though not this one), the entire things are covered. They're very pretty. Usually it's only tram line 1 though, and this one would be either line 9 or 15. Some of the line 1 trams are blue now. I'd like to know how they put on those giant stickers so perfectly... I think I stuck and unstuck the vinyl sticker to my phone a million times before it was straight.
Big Chinese restaurant, which is always packed... So I bet their food is really good. I'd like to go there...
Bike signal and walking signals... Oh, and you see the traffic signal lights are right at the stop rather than across the intersection. You can also see the bike path crossing to the left of the pedestrian crosswalk...
One of the city parking garages, right across the street from my apartment... If you walk behind it on that street right there to the right, you're in Chinatown.
.end PhotoDump
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