week four: how is it already week four?

hello! i have now officially passed the point of the longest time i have been outside of the u.s. bananas. it honestly feels like i just stepped off the plane yesterday. i did not do very much this week. i spent the day today at the pool. i finally received my shipment of hangers, so i have been trying to organize my bedroom. i am having a lot of the furniture that was put into the apartment taken out on monday (to include the awful bed), so i have to do some organizing! since i did not really do anything this week, i will just continue to talk about things i really like about living here.

one of my favorite things here is the fruit. it is all so fresh and delicious. and cheap! i spend about $20 on fruit for the week.



at hock choon (the grocery store i, and most people, go to for fruit) pre-cut fruit comes in little containers as you see above. the containers have little toothpicks taped to them, i suppose so that you can take it to go anywhere, but i eat it at my house, obviously. i have now accumulated 11 containers (14 if you include those above). they are a sturdier plastic than the kind pre-cut food comes in in the u.s., and microwavable, so they are good to reuse for anything. i imagine this will soon become a problem when i am overrun by them and the massive amount of tupperware i own that is on its way... but we'll deal with that when the time comes.

i was nervous about the fruit at first because the honeydew is not green. it is almost white, with a tiny hint of green/yellow. somehow that doesn't matter, because it's way tasty anyways. there is usually a wider variety of fruit, too, but i went to the grocery store in the evening today so i missed out on the prime pickings.

of course, for non-lazy people, there is also a wide variety of fruit for you to pick your own and cut up on your own, but i am lazy. so i don't do that.

there also exists here a magical juice called watermelon juice! i know watermelon juice is available in other countries, but i had never had it before coming here. it is. the. best. ever. i could drink it all day, but i don't because i believe with my standard candy consumption my sugar levels would be off the charts, but i could. if i wanted to.



so good.

anyway. my favorite thing/the only thing i really liked about my apartment in alexandria was that i looked directly out onto crystal city and reagan airport. i watched planes come in and take off all night. i liked looking out my window and seeing the city lights. and my windows, apart from about 5-6 feet in the middle of the room, were giant. how lucky/happy i felt to arrive here and discover that minus the airport view, i have essentially the same thing:



my favorite thing about it really is not just seeing the lights within the close vicinity of my apartment, but seeing the lights out closer to the mountains. i have always liked that. unfortunately, this also means i haven't seen any stars. or the moon. i think the sun and the moon rise and set in an arc directly over my apartment, but that is okay. i don't miss them yet.

i am going to try to make it to church tomorrow. i am still trying to decide if i want to try to take the train there, or a taxi, and i have problems deciding on anything so. we will see. this is the first easter in a very long time that i am not with my parents. it is a little bothersome, but such is part of growing up! i wish everyone a very happy easter ♥

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