Rainy day + baking = one happy girl!

Today we had legitimate rain.  Not just drizzle, but actual April showers.  They were blowing through all day.  Right now I'm just about to go to bed, and I can still hear drops pattering on my window.

Petra and I went to school this morning because we had to turn in a course credit form to the international office.  (Nir, the head of international students at the art & design school, and Dinah, his student assistant, are super nice.  Both Petra and I agreed that we like them a lot.)  After we dropped off the forms, we went to the computer lab.  Marni was there, so she and I booked our buses to Berlin (to connect to our train to Kraków this weekend) and printed all our tickets.  After that we walked to Hamburger Meile, the big indoor mall just down the block.  I wanted to get a couple more postcards.  We didn't stay very long--it was lunchtime and the aromas from all the food places were driving us absolutely crazy--but I did find my postcards, and a couple of cheap ceramic bowls for our kitchen (since one bowl got broken last week and another disappeared the week before that).  Marni bought an eye mask that said "Bitte Nicht Storen" on it (that means "Do Not Disturb").

Thankfully the housing manager came and fixed our oven door while I was making lunch, so this afternoon I was able to make my banana bread!!!  Nothing better to do on a rainy day than to bake, right?  It was a little confusing trying to figure out the amounts in grams and milliliters, and it took a while for it to bake all the way, but YAY!  In the end it came out delicious, and it was so beautiful (at least to my eyes).  To be honest, I think I think I was a little too excited about something as simple as having baked a loaf of bread.  I was taking pictures after I sliced the loaf and Marni told me to "stop cooing over it" and just eat it.  But this was the first time I ever made banana bread all on my own, guys!  I was just so proud of it!!  (How old am I?  22?  Boy, it's a good thing I came on this trip, because I think I should have learned to bake things from scratch a LONG time before now . . . )  Anyway, I had some of the bread with my leftover soup and it was so yummy!

Finished off the day by Skyping Mom (we mostly talked about boring stuff, like my class schedule for next semester), and then I went to the City Light women's Bible study.  It was just me, Anja, Rebecca, and Ivanna tonight.  We started the book of Philippians this week!  Lots of good stuff in chapter 1!