*cricket chirping*
Laura got sick yesterday. We were going to go to Amsterdam and visit some museums and do more “normal” touristy things. Instead she woke up feeling horrible and with a headache. So we chilled out inside instead. She’s doin better today though and will prolly go to work again tomorrow.
Other than Laura being gone, work was alright. Finished the fireplace in Darwin’s study. I’ll post pictures tomorrow hopefully, the internet was not working this afternoon (seems to be the theme of this trip). My hand started hurting randomly, and it’s been back and forth. I think it’s prolly my carpal tunnel, but it hurts differently than it always has in the past. Lindsey, I’ve been icing and heating it and I’ll get off the keyboard after I’m done posting… prolly. Hopefully by tomorrow it’ll go back to being a non-issue; I don’t want to have to wrap it at work.
Being here is still kinda surreal. It doesn’t always (or even usually) feel like Europe. The only thing that really slaps “different culture” in my face is the language, which sometimes doesn’t eve feel like a real language, just one the guys made up. The differences otherwise are either small or accountable by the change in population. Chico is relatively small, and Den Haag is relatively large. The public transportation and high-density living are both just big city things. The Albert Heijn is like Safeway in another language (they even have club cards); I ride my bike to school and downtown at home; 3D stuff is all the same; they even drive on the same side of the road :-p.
Laura and I eat relatively normally. Slightly different than my diet at home, but mostly because I’m not eating with eight people, nor do I have access to a full kitchen and a 24-hour grocery store. Other than language, the biggest problem I’ve faced is simply being away from everyone I know (except the obvious Miss Jolly). Most of my unhappiness here stems from missing people. It’s kinda weird, sitting in the Garden at lunch, half listening to the people around you speak tongues, and half just thinking about anything and everything, including where you are.
