Settling In

After a whirlwind race back from work to the hotel to the apartment last Wednesday I can now officially say I'm in my apartment. No photo's for now since it's a disaster. Suitcases littering the floor, seriously. Maybe I'll make a short video and post it after I've unpacked. So maybe next week sometime.

I can at least tell you it's not the apartment style I hoped for, but it's a good sized one bedroom/bath. There are a couple closets that I hope are able to hold all my stuff including my suitcases. And eventually the fridge will hold more than some yogurt, grapes, and juice. lol

So far I'm loving it here. Food is literally around every corner, every other store, being sold next to the street, from the back of trucks...it is freaking everywhere! Just found out that there is a Baskin Robins (with the most freakin' cutest cakes ever!) barely 2 blocks from my building.

Rode the subway for the first time ever! No, I don't mean just here...I mean ever. It was a weird experience. I had indian for dinner with some ladies from work. How is it that indian food here tastes a million times better than the one back home, which is owned and run by indians??

Oh, and the mystery smell coming from this lady's pot was not boiled walnuts/pecans as I thought. Nope, roasted silk larva. I can get behind fermented cabbage/veggies...I just can't get behind eating silk larva. I mean who looks at it and goes, hmmm that looks like something to eat! It boggles my mind. lol

Tomorrow(saturday) I was planning on going hiking, but with this head cold/nasal thing I'm trying to get rid of I don't think I will. Sleeping in and unpacking later sounds like a much better plan. I might go on Sunday. It is nice to walk to work and see mountains in the distance and fall colors in the trees that line the streets.

I do have to say though that despite all the newness and cool factors of my small experience  so far, there are too many people. I like people watching, but city living is not my ideal setting. I do love the experience so far and 6 years at the small, private (mostly run by the complaints of parents) school I taught at has really prepared me for this place. I don't feel like I've walked into a strange new world. It's pretty much been, "Oh, so I go with the flow like always? Cool." and "Yep, a big performance to prepare for? Sure, I can do that in 2 months." lol, you would have to have taught where I taught to trully appreciate the ability to change lesson plans last minute because of some random schedule change. It's more like I'm working with new people at pretty much the same school. lol

Now to crash. :)