I Hope I Have Unlimited Night & Weekend Minutes...

I suppose this weekend has been a good one. I went into it not knowing what I was going to do at all, so it didn't turn into much. On Saturday, I had what I consider an eventful experience. I figured out how to do laundry here. You think that would easy, right? Oh... well... It wasn't as easy as it sounds. The laundry facilities are downstairs, and you have to have $5 exact cash in order to get a laundry card to load money onto. Once you have that card, you have to have either $10 or $20 exact cash to load onto the card in order to pay for use of the machines. I started out the venture with some $1's, a $10, and $20. I decided to not use my brain (it was Saturday morning, give me a break). Long story short, I ended up having to go get change from the store on the corner twice after using the elevator and going down to the laundry room and back up to my place in between every trip. It was definitely a hassle. But I figured it out. Good news though is that the machines are large enough that I can literally fit all the clothes that I brought to Baltimore into one load, so laundry can never cost me much. I will have to do it every week though.

Megan and I decided that we wanted to go find somewhere green. There's not much green in the city. We went to a park that was near the Baltimore zoo. It was really pretty there. It was nice to get some fresh air! While we were walking around, we came upon a botanical garden. It was super neat because they had all different kinds of plants from all over the world. It smelled really good in there. We looked on Megan's GPS and saw that the nearest Metro station was actually a different one than the one we had gotten off at, so we started walking to it. Well. We had to walk through a blue light district to get there. A blue light district, in Baltimore, means it's an ultra high crime rate area. I was freaked out the whole time. No worries though. It was day time, and we didn't have to walk far. But it was still scary.















I rode the bus to church again today, but luckily I don't think I'll have to do that anymore. I met a girl at church today that lives near me that said that she can give me a ride from now on! I'm so happy!!

After a nice long Sunday afternoon nap, I got to talk on the phone for a while with some friends and some family tonight. I ended up talking for a total of about two and a half hours...hence my title to this post. It was soo great to talk to people that I know and love. I miss them all so much! I love it here, but it's hard to know I'm so far away from my family. I know that I am where I'm supposed to be though :)