My trip to the grocery store (or PHARMACY, as it is also known as here) was uneventful, if you don't count the part where I had to walk through a park full of homeless people with a GIANT bag of food. I had to focus on the music of my iPod, put on my Fierce face and walk with purpose past all 10 of them. Accidentally made eye contact with one and felt a thrill of fear because you know me but it ended up being okay.
I have a new roommate and she is from neighbouring Canberra!!! AWESOME! I like her very much. I also chatted to a dude downstairs in the lounge room for a while. That was character-building for me, since I don't like to talk to strangers. But I guess different rules apply for hostels.
Oh, speaking of hostels, so I was worried at first about leaving my food in the kitchen, as a n00b does, but it's totally fine! If you label it, no one can touch it and if they do, security tapes will reveal the offender and they get busted. I bought a ton of microwave meals, but when I came back and started unpacking, I realised what I'd thought was a microwave was actually an oven that looks like a microwave. Sigh. So I resigned myself to cooking my microwave meals over the stove for the week. I was cooking my dinner tonight on said stove when another housemate showed me that the oven that looks like a microwave is actually a microwave. It's just a microwave that looks like an oven that looks like a microwave. So all good for the rest of the week! My dinner was really gross though. It was supposed to be this rice thing but instead resembled miso soup. Good thing I ate it with bread (dipped it in all the flavoured water until most of it disappeared to reveal the rice!).
Today I also crossed two "candies" off my Candy Bucket List. Butterfingers which are like peanut brittle in chocolate (two things I love!) and Reese's Pieces which I've had before but I just wanted to buy them here coz they're cheaper. I love how here, every second item has peanut butter. Obvs they don't have the NOTHING WITH PEANUTS rule here on the playgrounds.
"It's just a microwave that looks like an oven that looks like a microwave."
ReplyDeletePossibly the best thing I've ever read.
Good on you for getting out and talking to people. KEEP IT UP! I'm so proud of you *squishy hugs*
Yay, no anti-peanut butter rules! As a relief teacher I'm not allowed to bring peanut butter sandwiches to any school - what's WITH that?
It may also possibly be a time machine. I have yet to ask it.
DeleteNO PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICHES???? GEEZ. THAT'S MY FAVOURITE SPREAD! *eats her Reese's Pieces cup for breakfast* I don't know how you do it.
I don't know what to say about myself that I can't actually tell what the difference is between cooking with a microwave versus an oven... a microwave is faster? But you can still oven microwave!food right? Or microwave oven!food? Omg why don't I know this. Also, they all work on the stove? (I wish I could tag this comment with "cooking for newbies"/"survival for newbies" or something). Anyways, I am now really curious about this oven that looks like a microwave because LOL.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you cooked the rice for too long? Or put too much flavouring?
How do you have roommates? You mean, like... fellow people staying in the same hostel, right?
I'm also confused about this peanut butter rule for relief teachers. Or on playgrounds. That is so bizarre.
:O! A microwave is mainly for heating and an oven for cooking all the way through. It's like, there's some foods that you can't cook in the microwave, such as a whole chicken, but there's some foods you can't put in the oven or they'll just burn/cook over. Idk, I'm not the best person to try explain how things in the kitchen work haha. BUT DISHWASHERS, I CAN! And nah, put too much water in and also took it off the stove too soon.
ReplyDeleteAnd in hostels, you share dorm rooms with 4-12 people, depending on the size of your room. I chose the 4 bed deluxe with ensuite which is soo what you need in a hostel.
In Australia, because so many kids are deathly allergic to nuts/peanuts/peanut butter etc, we have a no nuts policy at most schools. Which is a shame, because who doesn't love a peanut butter sandwich? And because Kaitlyn works at some schools who may have this rule, while some don't, she has to be on the safe side and not bring it in at all. If a teacher worked at the same school and knew whether peanut butter was allowed or not, it'd be a diff story.