Moving

Today, I got to move into my new, cheaper room! It's a little bit like a three-bedroom apartment, and I will share bathroom and kitchenette with two other girls. The room is of course smaller than my old one, but it's definitely big enough for me (I don't have much stuff anyways).

The whole process of moving my stuff from one room to the other, moving food and kitchen utensils between the two self-cook kitchen areas, filling out the paperwork, waiting for the receptionist to do the room inspection, etc, took about three hours... it was rather exhausting ;)

The other two girls haven't arrived yet. I think they might move in tomorrow.

After I moved all my stuff, I went for a walk downtown. I explored another farmer's market, grabbed lunch at a little cafe, and did some window-shopping.

Overall, though, the weather was lousy and the city smelly.
I hope it will be a little better tomorrow!

Frustrating Moment of the Day:
When I got something out of the fridge at 9:30 at night, I realized that the fridge had never turned on, when I stocked it this morning (I had turned the little knob all the way to "very cold," though).
Why is my fridge not working??
My frozen veggies, meat, ICE CREAM, etc had had a whole day to slowly thaw!

Of course, this late at night, the reception was closed...
I decided to cook all my veggies and the left over meat (only one chicken drumstick, thank god).

Fortunately, on my way to the kitchen I ran into one of the RAs. When I asked him what could be wrong with my fridge, he suggested it probably wasn't broken and I just needed to turn on the power.
Well, how do you do that??

He kindly came with me and demonstrated:
You need to take a stool, climb up on the 6 ft tall fridge, insert a one-foot spoon in a 3 square-inch hole in the top of the cupboard (the fridge is in a cupboard that you can lock) and tip over a switch.

No, I am not kidding you.

The fridge turned on, but I still wanted to cook some of the veggies and the chicken. So if you walked by the Railway Campus kitchen at 11pm, you probably saw me grilling up some food.

For the next three days, I won't have to come up with dinner ideas, because there will be cooked vegetables in the fridge.