Exciting Day

At present, I’m working through a peanut butter, Nutella and jelly sandwich. It’s very tasty. I coated half of one slice of bread with Nutella, and the other half with peanut butter, and put it together with another slice covered in jelly. I like it.

I spent lots of money today, so it must have been a very exciting day. First, I went to give the study abroad advisor forty pounds for a ticket to the world-class soccer match between Brazil and Italy. I wavered for quite a while on whether or not I wanted to spend that much money on a ticket to a soccer game, but I think the cultural experience will be worth it.

I went downtown to Tottenham Road with my flatmate in the afternoon. We found a sports store which was going out of business. I bought rugby cleats, two pairs of shorts, a rugby ball, a pair of socks, a mouthguard, and a basketball for roughly seventy dollars. I can’t wait to use all my new stuff. I’m sure it will all be covered in mud after the rugby practice on Sunday. Well maybe not the basketball. Unless I play with it afterward without washing my hands or clothes.

When we returned, we decided to go check out a climbing gym located within a five-minute walk of campus. It didn’t look like much from the outside, but it certainly is much. There is a huge room for bouldering (climbing without a rope) with several walls of all different shapes, a room with a high ceiling dedicated to belay climbing, and apparently there is another room which I didn’t see meant for climbing along the ceiling. I didn’t climb today, but I think I’ll probably end up buying a monthly membership there and try to go a few times a week.

I cooked some steaks tonight, of which I am decidedly proud. You can only do so much with salt, but I was satisfied. If anyone has simple, delicious, cheap recipes which can be prepared with one pot, one pan, one bowl, one spoon, one fork and one knife, I would be much obliged. Oh, and salt. I have salt, too.