Well, I take great comfort my French must be good enough for everyone to understand "Je ne comprend pas" (I don't understand). I must be saying something right although they do continue to speak French to me,..maybe they are somehow under the impression I am French and only misunderstood them and not simply do not understand a word that is coming out of their mouth!
Soner says I will not have jet lag because I started going to bed at the time he goes to bed when I got here and that the jet lag days have passed behind me. I disagree. I only stayed awake all day Saturday and Sunday because what choice did I have?? Sleep both those days and then he will work for the week and I have no one to show me around OR force myself awake and enjoy it? So I take naps, 2 hr naps in the afternoons and try to sleep late in the mornings. A bit difficult as I believe every moped bike in the city drives past our hotel and revves its engine just to spite me.
After laying in bed for hours this morning, I finally dragged myself up and out of the room to Sephora! A comforting place! Most all of the products had English and French descriptions so it was perfect. I also stumbled upon a wonderful place, the Mono Prix. Not much of an exciting place to most but for me it was heavenly! It means I no longer have to trek the endless miles (If it wasn't miles, it sure felt like it was!) to get to the supermarche' at the end of the city (so I only actually did that long walk once but it made such an impression on me). This place is a bit smaller but do I really need ALL those choices of food the big supermarche' has to offer? I think I may be the only person who gets excited about grocery stores. I have favorites in every city I have been in! In Shreveport, definitely Brookshires on Line Avenue, Baton Rouge it was Albertsons on Bluebonnet Blvd, San Diego Ralphs in La Jolla, Chicago...hmm I only ever went to Dominics across the street because I am too lazy to walk to another but I went there often to walk around and think of something to buy and in Istanbul the grocery store in Kanyon Mall, maybe also because it was the only one I ever frequented to walk around and look at all the food. I sound like a nerd more and more as I go through this post, don't I?
Last night I met a lot of Soner's CLP friends. There were 11 of us in total and a baby. We had Morocan food with lots and lots of couscous! The food was pretty good and the mixture of people were quite funny. There were two people from the United States, a New Yorker and Houstonian. The majority of everyone else seem to be from Russia with perfect English! The night was nice but there was no one on the streets when we left a little after 10. It was very quiet..almost spooky quiet.
Ok one more thing, the perfect coke..I found it! It is a miniature canned version of the regular thing. It is a real can and a real coke with only 64 calories to the can. It is the most wonderful size as I cannot actually finish a real coke ever so this is not wasteful and you don't feel the need to drink an entire 12 oz coke just because it is there.
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