I guess it is about time to confess...I'm technologically challenged. I'm disorganized in planning my daily schedule. I'm poorly equipped to fry an egg. I miss my walk in closet. I'm tired of walking around in unfamiliar surroundings exploring sights in a foreign city. I miss talking my poor English to others using the same dialect. I miss a full screen desk top computer with spell check to work without my prompting it like it did at work. I want the blisters from last week to go away so i can start on new ones rather than just chaffing the ones I already have. I want fast food which so far I have avoided not to be...are you sitting down....I have been in each of the familiar burger joints just for pricing.....The golden arches, burger $7AU, , KFC $9AU for a ,meal, Subway $9AU for a six incher, gas is $125/ltr which I don't even know how to convert?? ,Mileage is in kilometers...which kills me, the car are all on the right side drive and come at you from the wrong direction. I have yet to step off the curb until my little green man is blinking but i did experience near death of a Korean girl when she stepped in front of a car that stopped just short of making her a fatality. Scared us both near out of our skins. The food is under cooked but what do you expect from the Asians they eat raw fish. The cleanliness is below standard but what is to be expected from hiring a cleaning staff of 3rd world people that pooh in the street is normal and acceptable. No wonder there is world hunger and disease. Whew, got that off my chest/shoulders. Now to my happy place...I am embracing all that is around me in awe and acceptance. I am truly blessed!
I seem to find it harder than most to have just learned to use a laptop in a wifi location, upload my pictures to Flickr and still not know how to get the pictures to be able to share the haul of at least 100 pictures a day that I take so that they can be viewed by the masses (4 another day), blog when I didn't ever think I had anything worth saying previously, upload all that is important to me to Facebook. To think someone is a billionaire to think this was something people would find so fascinating. I have grown personally more in the last year planning and actually living this experience than I would have ever allowed myself in my previous incarnation. The stuff that was important is no big deal now. Deadlines, appearances, impressions, possessions all very relative to the current living environment. I hardly call what I am experiencing a day to day struggle but compared to what I am used to every day has challenges that I have never experienced before. I'll call it growing pains. they are never pleasurable at the time but they are what make us who we are going to be. I am going to be fabulous.
Let me share an example. Finding food. I first needed to locate what this country calls a grocery store when it is filled like home with 7-11's, Woolworth's or woolie's, the market's that seems to be everywhere, and the no name corner stores that seem to be on every corner. All with the same level of junk food at exorbitant rates. The Hostel front desk clerk advised of the grocer 3 block up which is in the under ground and I hit pay dirt. I walked out with a quart of milk, a banana, a box of cereal, loaf of bread, jar of instant coffee, box of crackers, 4 tin tins of tuna fish, 4 cups of yogurt, and a jar of strawberry jam all for the highway robbery price of $30.18AU. As I was paying $6.40AU each morning for a cup of coffee, small orange juice, bowl of cereal and 2 slices of toast I decided that groceries would be money better spent. The Hostel has a fully stocked self serve kitchen is all the necessary kitchen ware. Not that I ever knew how to use any of it at home. Skills never learned I miss alot. Never too late to learn right...necessity breeds ingenuity or a large bill for eating out. The refrigerators require that you label your food bags with tags to claim your stuff and there are cubby shelves for storing the non-perishables. It's like kindergarten for adults to label your school bags so Mikey doesn't take your stuff in error. At dinner time it is a mad bunch of chaos with everyone sharing pots/pans/utensils/plates/bowls/silverware in a very friendly yet chaotic fashion kinda like Top Chef but with alot of different languages and smells...some not so appetizing.
There are some nights that the Hostel host meals for a reduced $5AU. I had my first taste of roo burger and the french cooked omelets, and there has the breakfast of runny eggs and undercooked bacon. But when you don't have to cook it is worth it. From time to time there is the backpacker sponsored pizza party and all you can eat spread at various bars that I have yet to participate due to the location when I passed didn't look like the food and beverage commission had approved meal prep. I'm hungry but not taking life affecting chances. All in all I'm not going hungry just loosing weight due to being on the go all day long from sun up to late in the evening all in the sake of traveling.
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