Vacation Update

I just talked to Susanne over Skype.  For some reason, no matter whether I'm calling home or somewhere in Holland, the connection is always bad.  There's a lag, and also both parties in the call get cut off mid-word often.

It was a ten-and-a-half-minute phone call, and we managed to sort out the confusion about church.  Apparently, her daughter is in the Rotterdam First ward, but she goes to Spijkenisse.  *shrug*  The people in the ward here were nice enough anyway.  One girl translated for me in Relief Society, and then they had someone translating over headphones during Sunday School and Sacrament Meeting.

Susanne asked about my plans for the rest of my vacation, and I told her I didn't really have any, that I've been kind of making them up as I go along--which is true.  Pretty much every morning, I get on my computer here and go through the (short) list of places Grandma recommended to me to see where I want to go that day.  Then I look up and write down directions from either the hostel or the nearest train station to that particular place.

Since the connection was so bad, and we'd been talking for more than ten minutes, we both hung up after saying goodbye.  She said to have fun and be careful, and that if I need help I can call her.

Now, I think I'll go upstairs and get my blanket--it's chilly down here, and I can work on my story without needing wireless internet access.