Maeday Writes: My First Week

I finally managed to make my way over to the grocery store and in doing so, I found some stores that I'm sure some of you will appreciate when it comes time for me to do some Christmas shopping. I found an amazing stationary store, a pet store, two books stores, and, best of all, a chocolate store. I may need to sample the chocolate store's goods a few dozen times before I can be positive that it's good enough to give as gifts.

Some of you might know that I recently got a FitBit. It's been very interesting because, it measures how active I am, how many steps I take, miles I walk, floors I climb, and the length and quality of my sleep. Even though I only had it for a week before I left, I can also use it to compare how active I was at home vs. here. For example, even though I have way more active minutes (ten or more minutes in a row where my heart-rate is above normal) here than at home, I am in general walking fewer steps. This probably has something to do with the fact that every time I leave the flat to go out on the street, I have to walk four flights of stairs to get back up to my room. Although, with the fact that the ceilings are probably somewhere around 12+ feet tall, I'm really probably walking up at least five stories worth of stairs everytime. For example, my FitBit measured me climbing 37 flights of stairs on Monday alone. Thirty-seven. Maybe I'll go to the Grand Canyon when I get home in May.

I know many of you *cough* mom *cough* have been clamoring for photos of where I live, so I have decided to give in.