Cora vs Electronics at the Table

Sunday. The goal of the day was to find plates, cutlery and a pan. Quite a challenge. It meant that we had to walk to  Sommerville. And that’s quite far away. And it was hot. And i did not like that walk. On the way we saw this really cool place where u can go and wash your clothes, you know, the ones u see in the movies and I was very fascinated as I had never seen any of them but Luis wouldn’t let me look at it. He said peope here did not like that. I did not like that. After what felt like a lifetime we finally got to Target. As we are in the US, it is a very big store. I got some really cool plates and cutlery. Everything is very colorful, I love it. The main colors are pink (my favorite color, as you know) and yellow (my second favorite color. –by the way my nails are yellow at the moment. Yeah i know u don’t care.). I also got a bialetti pan (good italian brand, made me very happy) and some other utensils. It was great!!!! To get back, we took a bus (could have taken that to get there in the first place. One is always smarter the second time.) and then we went to get lunch at this organic place and it was again very big but this time also very good and I was very fascinated by some oft he products (for example blue and purple tortilla chips. Am SO gonna buy some this week. I mean: imagine it: Blue tortilla chips with red dip and maybe cheese (=yellow). How cool is that??? So that for being fascinated. Afterwards we had planned to just chill at the charles river (memorial drive is closed on sundays so it’s very nice and not noisy as usually) and we had planned to express some of our nerd genes and read some scientific books but then Luis’ boss (Charles, he’s the boss of Crimson Bikes, an enterprise that does bike rental for Harvard students) took us on a bike trip (coz they are planning this trip to rise awareness for biking.) to this freshwater pond. It was a very disappointing pond as 1) there was a fence around it and 2) you couldn’t swim in it. So Cora wasn’t happy. But cycling was definitely cool! And it’s flat here so it wasn’t exhausting at all ;) So then we came back and met up with Kurt who comes from the cottonfields ;) (if you read this Kurt, sorry about it ;) it was just too funny) and we walked to my place and I cooked dinner (Pasta with mushroom sauce) and we chilled and talked. Now what i still haven’t gotten used to here is people checking their fones. They do it all the time. And i mean All. The. Time. Emalils, texts, What’sapp... it’s endless. So when you’re trying to have a conversation or meal or both together, it can get very, and i mean VERY irritating. Or maybe it’s just me? I grew up in a culture where there were no electronics at the table except for the toaster. And so people would talk, or chew, or operate the toaster. Here, they talk, chew and operate electronics contemporaneously!!!! And it really is getting on my nerves. Yeah. I like to complain.

Then Kurt and Luis left because they were gonna pick up a fan somewhere and I was quite jealous of that. (I definitely need to buy one btw. My room is a sauna. I don’t like saunas.) And that was yet another fascinating day in the US.