moving in

Posted by Drew | Filed under General

This morning I finally unpacked my suitcases.  3 weeks and 2 days after I got here.  It’ feels good.  But our apartment is missing a few things.  I need to run to Wal Mart.

Our new place is really nice.  It’s just been rennovated, and all the bathroom and Kitchen furnishings are brand new.  The rest of the apartment is one room, with a loft on one end where all 3 beds sit.  We’re about 18 inches of gap space from sleeping in one really big bed.   Should be great for roommate unity.  Or roommate conflict.

Tonight we’re actually going to Carrefour, which is the European version of Wal Mart.  There’s one just outside Salerno in a town called Pontecagnano.  We went once as a team a few weeks ago.  It’s about a half-hour bus ride, basically along one road.  As soon as you get on that road, there are advertisements every 1/4 mile or so pointing to this place.  Apparently, there’s also a sign indicating a detour around the center of Pontecagnano if you’re interested in avoiding traffic.  This story could get really long, but basically, I led our team off the bus about 8 stops too early, followed a long route around the outskirts of this town, only to end up back on the same road after nearly an hour of walking, and we still had another 30 minutes to go before we made it to the store, which ended up being about 5 minutes away from the bus stop we should have used.   I feel confident none of the rest of my team will go to Carrefour during this year without making some kind of joke about that trip.  They’ve found several things to give me a hard time about.  But that one, I think, will stick the longest.

Permalink | September 30th, 2006

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