A (Very Long) Breakdown, Day 2

Tuesday morning, Matea and I trudged through the snow to find breakfast and nearly missed our destination, the grocery store nearest to our hostel. We took the safe route and picked out fruit, water, and bread for our breakfast and stumbled through paying for it at the register, where I inadvertently stole a grocery bag. I guess you have to pay a few centai (cents) for them. So on my first official day in Vilnius, I became a criminal. Whoops.

The rest of Tuesday meant reuniting with aforementioned boyfriend (yayyy!) and the rest of the study abroad students. There are about 29 total students and 14 just from APU. I had no idea there was such a large group from my school. It was a nice surprise.

For Tuesday dinner, we hit up a typical Lithuanian restaurant and ate delicious things like fried bread and cheese and fried bread with fried meat inside. Oh and, of course, potatoes, a staple of any Lithuanian diet which I have been assured by the study abroad interns (four of whom shuffle the rest of us around the city) will not cause me to gain weight due to the large amount of walking around we do.

For the rest of the night, we played Mafia at the urging of one of the interns, Elena, which I was all practiced up for thanks to the several rounds we played during my family's annual beach trip. I stayed up late and waited for Leslie to finally arrive as she had been delayed and deterred to Poland, a country she was not originally supposed to visit.