working out for Disney

HouCuseChickie

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So, I didn't do any walking last night. I got drawn into the TV show and that was it. I did go out for a walk this morning before logging into work. It was about 30 minutes and around 1.5 miles. My ankle tolerated a sock this morning, so I walked with socks & Crocs! My calf muscles felt really tight and those shoes have so little cushion, but I think the socks helped me go at a slightly faster pace. I didn't sleep well last night and just don't have the energy for a more intense workout today, but I still got onto the bike after work. I went for 30 minutes and biked about 7.65 miles.

Not the most eventful day aside from some rain. About to head out to take Sam to practice and debate back and forth about travel and camp invites.
 

Sans Souci

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Happy Friday! 🎉

I did the most horrendous workout this AM. I even tweaked my back slightly in the process. It's not too bad, it feels like a slightly pulled muscle. Even though it was a sweaty and difficult workout, I feel better for doing it. I looked like drowned rat when I was done. lol

I'm planning my BBQ foods for the holiday weekend. I am thinking of making chicken shawarma and roasted veggie skewers (cooked on separate skewers) with hummus, a mix of olives, and some couscous. I am making Paula Deen's banana pudding, too. I haven't made that in so long. I'd been making the Magnolia Bakery banana pudding, I thought I'd switch it up.
 

HouCuseChickie

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I was going to make this sheet pan dinner that is baked feta with broccolini, grape tomatoes, and red onion served with orzo. I honestly wasn't feeling like cooking, but I was going to anyway, but when I went to turn the oven on, my son was using it to bake dozens of cookies. I put some tater tots in the air fryer and I'm calling it dinner. This is the second time I have done that for dinner this week. I am in one of those moods where no foods or meals appeal to me. lol

Tater tots are sounding pretty tasty right now! Hopefully, your son shared his cookies with you for dessert.
 

HouCuseChickie

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I'm thinking Friday is going to be a break day for the foreseeable future. Sam has 6am weights pretty much every week until the new year. We had to leave extra early this morning to get money since we forgot that she needed to put in her payment for a fundraiser. I got home just before 6am, crawled back into bed, and crawled back out about 5 minutes before I needed to log in for work. There used to be a time when I had no problem working out at this hour, but I just haven't been able to find the energy to do much before 7am. We'll see how I feel later on. Seeing @Sans Souci talking about kettle bells reminded me that I have all of mine back and that might be a nice change to the workout life. If not, it might be on tap for tomorrow morning. It's rare for me to sleep in much past 7:30 and Sam's practice at 9 is only a little over 5 minutes away. So, there will be plenty of time.
 

Songbird76

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Agreed! While I'm by no means saying it was OK, we did periodically take film pictures of our friends in really dumb situations. That being said, it was usually people we'd known in person for far more than a week. Not to mention that it was film and you had to wait to get it developed. Whatever was driving the moment had usually long passed by that point. I don't know if we would have been so cavalier with it if camera phones, texting and social media were a thing back then.

I'm really getting the impression that this girl's main "friend" group before college was her cousin(s). That's been her justification for most of her bad behavior (i.e. it's always been OK with them). Family is more likely to let you get away with a lot of things that wouldn't be acceptable in standard peer groups.
I hope she can work it out with the girl. Unfortunately, I think it's almost an unwritten rule that you have to have some bad roommate experiences in college. I know I sure did. My first roommate was a friend of mine...she didn't go to my high school, but I knew her through activities and thought I'd rather live with someone I knew and liked than some stranger. But when I moved in, she had gotten there first and had taken all the shelf space in the room, and part of my closet, etc. She would help herself to any food or drinks that I had in the room, but told me if I touched hers, heads would roll. She would meet me at the door asking me where I was sleeping that night because she wanted to have a sleepover in the room with her boyfriend and I needed to find somewhere else to stay. She hid booze in the room, which if found, I would have lost my scholarship even though it wasn't mine. I'd be in my room listening to music and she'd come in, turn off my music and put hers on instead. She tried to commit suicide the day before my birthday, so I spent my birthday in the hospital with her. It was just a tough year. And then that summer, I stayed in the dorms rather than going home, and my roommate didn't shower, never cleaned up her stuff. I found her dirty underwear under my bed, plates with half eaten food crusted onto them, etc. She was a super sweet girl, but just unsanitary and the room was always a mess and it smelled. I got a single room after that. I didn't want to deal with roommate issues anymore. I'm very non-confrontational and my mom was so strict I had become a people-pleaser just to survive, and I didn't have the confidence to stand up to them and tell them to shape up. And I'm sure there were things they didn't like about me as a roommate, too. Sometimes it's worth the extra money to not have to fight over space, over decor, over privacy, etc.

Are there a lot of single rooms at K's university? They were in short supply where I went, and I just happened to luck out being able to get one. Over here, finding student housing is difficult all the way around. There's a severe shortage, even WITH roommates. A lot of people go years before they finally get a place and there are people who cheat the system by signing up for one class after they graduate just so they still qualify for student housing because there's a housing crisis in the Netherlands. Only 1% of available properties are affordable for "starters" (people for whom it is their first home). So graduates finish school and can't even get an apartment, so they take a class or something so they can keep their student housing room, which means that someone just starting school can't get a dorm room. It's a vicious cycle. People take YEARS on a waiting list to get a place. When I first moved here, we lived with my in-laws and we were signed up on a waiting list. You could sign in for 3 listings per month and the first person on the list who signed in on that house got it. After 3 years of being on the list, we were still at the very bottom of the list every time. If there were 200 people signed up for a house, we were 198th. We even started signing up on the least desirable places....places in towns without a bus system. One bedroom apartments in poor sections of town....even if there were only 15 people who signed up for that house, we were 12th....and that was 3 years in. We were never going to get a house that way. We got this one off a different list that worked with a lottery system rather than length of time on the list. It's a small house in a low income neighborhood, but beggars can't be choosers. We needed a place and our number was drawn, so we took it. But there was a news item not too long ago that said there were people on waiting lists for over 20 years who STILL couldn't get a place. And you have to be pretty wealthy to afford a place that's not on a waiting list. So it's pretty bad here for housing. So I'm curious about how it is there? Does K have any other options? How many roommates are there in her room/suite?
 

Sans Souci

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I'm thinking Friday is going to be a break day for the foreseeable future. Sam has 6am weights pretty much every week until the new year. We had to leave extra early this morning to get money since we forgot that she needed to put in her payment for a fundraiser. I got home just before 6am, crawled back into bed, and crawled back out about 5 minutes before I needed to log in for work. There used to be a time when I had no problem working out at this hour, but I just haven't been able to find the energy to do much before 7am. We'll see how I feel later on. Seeing @Sans Souci talking about kettle bells reminded me that I have all of mine back and that might be a nice change to the workout life. If not, it might be on tap for tomorrow morning. It's rare for me to sleep in much past 7:30 and Sam's practice at 9 is only a little over 5 minutes away. So, there will be plenty of time.
I have a few go to YouTube videos for kettle bells if you are interested. There's one channel that is pretty basic that uses the kettle bells as weights and doesn't do things like "scratches" (substitute the cr with an n). Those are kind of tricky, but I don't know how comfortable you are with that move. He does do different types of swings. I just think the previously mentioned move is an invitation for injury if you do it incorrectly. I rarely do them, because I feel like I need a professional to watch me and provide feedback about my form.
 

HouCuseChickie

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I have a few go to YouTube videos for kettle bells if you are interested. There's one channel that is pretty basic that uses the kettle bells as weights and doesn't do things like "scratches" (substitute the cr with an n). Those are kind of tricky, but I don't know how comfortable you are with that move. He does do different types of swings. I just think the previously mentioned move is an invitation for injury if you do it incorrectly. I rarely do them, because I feel like I need a professional to watch me and provide feedback about my form.

Have you ever used this one? It looked appealing because it involves a number of things I've done before, but combined into a 30 minute routine.

 

HouCuseChickie

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I cook them in the air fryer and they are so addictive. I was meh about them before, but now, they come out nicely browned and crunchy and the interior is creamy, like mashed potatoes. 👩🏼‍🍳🤌🏻

I just moved our air fryer back out to the garage, but it may come back out if I splurge on some tots! I normally just bake them. Our regular oven is a convection oven, so I'm not sure it makes a huge difference between that and the air fryer.
 

HouCuseChickie

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I hope she can work it out with the girl. Unfortunately, I think it's almost an unwritten rule that you have to have some bad roommate experiences in college. I know I sure did. My first roommate was a friend of mine...she didn't go to my high school, but I knew her through activities and thought I'd rather live with someone I knew and liked than some stranger. But when I moved in, she had gotten there first and had taken all the shelf space in the room, and part of my closet, etc. She would help herself to any food or drinks that I had in the room, but told me if I touched hers, heads would roll. She would meet me at the door asking me where I was sleeping that night because she wanted to have a sleepover in the room with her boyfriend and I needed to find somewhere else to stay. She hid booze in the room, which if found, I would have lost my scholarship even though it wasn't mine. I'd be in my room listening to music and she'd come in, turn off my music and put hers on instead. She tried to commit suicide the day before my birthday, so I spent my birthday in the hospital with her. It was just a tough year. And then that summer, I stayed in the dorms rather than going home, and my roommate didn't shower, never cleaned up her stuff. I found her dirty underwear under my bed, plates with half eaten food crusted onto them, etc. She was a super sweet girl, but just unsanitary and the room was always a mess and it smelled. I got a single room after that. I didn't want to deal with roommate issues anymore. I'm very non-confrontational and my mom was so strict I had become a people-pleaser just to survive, and I didn't have the confidence to stand up to them and tell them to shape up. And I'm sure there were things they didn't like about me as a roommate, too. Sometimes it's worth the extra money to not have to fight over space, over decor, over privacy, etc.

Are there a lot of single rooms at K's university? They were in short supply where I went, and I just happened to luck out being able to get one. Over here, finding student housing is difficult all the way around. There's a severe shortage, even WITH roommates. A lot of people go years before they finally get a place and there are people who cheat the system by signing up for one class after they graduate just so they still qualify for student housing because there's a housing crisis in the Netherlands. Only 1% of available properties are affordable for "starters" (people for whom it is their first home). So graduates finish school and can't even get an apartment, so they take a class or something so they can keep their student housing room, which means that someone just starting school can't get a dorm room. It's a vicious cycle. People take YEARS on a waiting list to get a place. When I first moved here, we lived with my in-laws and we were signed up on a waiting list. You could sign in for 3 listings per month and the first person on the list who signed in on that house got it. After 3 years of being on the list, we were still at the very bottom of the list every time. If there were 200 people signed up for a house, we were 198th. We even started signing up on the least desirable places....places in towns without a bus system. One bedroom apartments in poor sections of town....even if there were only 15 people who signed up for that house, we were 12th....and that was 3 years in. We were never going to get a house that way. We got this one off a different list that worked with a lottery system rather than length of time on the list. It's a small house in a low income neighborhood, but beggars can't be choosers. We needed a place and our number was drawn, so we took it. But there was a news item not too long ago that said there were people on waiting lists for over 20 years who STILL couldn't get a place. And you have to be pretty wealthy to afford a place that's not on a waiting list. So it's pretty bad here for housing. So I'm curious about how it is there? Does K have any other options? How many roommates are there in her room/suite?

I tend to agree. While this girl has definitely crossed some lines, learning to work it out is something that I associate with college life. Kendall also feels like she's a people pleaser. She's not that way at home, but I know it's something that bugs the other two roommates. You went through a lot with that roommate. I'm just glad the alcohol thing never was discovered. It's maddening that someone else's bad behavior and choices could have had such a devastating impact on you. It's kind of like when K got punished for vaping, simply because some girls came in to sneak a vape while she was in a stall. I feel like schools really need to do better with this kind of stuff.

I honestly have no idea how many singles there are, but there must still be a few around because I've heard of a few exceptionally bad roommate situations resulting in people being pushed out into singles. Sadly, it's always the victim and never the one causing the issues. So, that person winds up dealing with the stress of moving and the higher costs associated with a single. It's not quite as bad here with rooms, but it really depends on the school and their housing policies. Some schools with limited on-campus housing have no requirements to live on campus. Some are so "in demand" that you have to pay to enter housing lotteries to even stand a chance. Those are also the schools where apartments can be hard to come by and are insanely expensive. Others have mandates for at least freshman, so that pushes most upperclassmen into apartments. I'm kind of scared for the spring, because we'll probably have to make that decision for K by January or February and have a deposit in place for the fall. K would have had to pay something like $3,000 to waive the on-campus freshman housing requirement at OU. My alma mater was similar. Freshman and sophomores were required to live in dorms and there were meal plan mandates as well. I would really like her to become an R&A so she could have most of room/board covered, but we'll see how it goes. At least she has lot of food options. I know she was super worried that she'd need to shop for groceries all the time, but they're so spoiled!
 

HouCuseChickie

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Good evening and hope everyone is having a nice Labor Day weekend.

I woke up a little early today to get in a workout before Sam's practice. It's more of the usual, but better than sleeping in. I biked a little over 10 miles, arms, stretching and abs. Tomorrow, I really think I'm going to do the kettle bells, but we'll see.

Other than that, I'm hot and tired. Sam was at practice for 9 hours today. David wants to go out since Sam is staying overnight with a friend, but part of me wants to just get pizza, make some drinks and watch some games or TV.
 

Sans Souci

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Have you ever used this one? It looked appealing because it involves a number of things I've done before, but combined into a 30 minute routine.



I have done all of her kettlebell videos. She has a five day series called "Kicka__ Kettlebell" that are ~30 minutes each. She's really good and she has several strength training programs on YouTube that are very comprehensive and free. My favorite is "Fuel".
 

Sans Souci

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Hello-

I did an upper body and jump rope video yesterday in addition to going out for a walk.

I got my covid booster yesterday. I think this was the worst one yet. It made me nauseous and sick to my stomach, in addition to muscle pain. headache and fever. I struggled to sleep last night and only got out of bed now. I wanted to kill my husband. He set an alarm for 7:30, so he could watch a soccer match. He opened all the drapes, which hurt my eyes. He stayed in the bedroom to watch it and I was trying to get some rest after being up with nastiness all night. He shouts when he watches these matches. Then he was asking my opinion about flights here from the UK because we're treating my MIL for flights to spend Thanksgiving with us this year. Callie returned after being away for one night and he kept texting me that she was here and was waiting in her spot for me to pet her. Then he came up to tell me that in person. I don't know if this was "retaliation" for tossing and turning and being sick in the bathroom all night or what. I wasn't doing that for fun. I felt awful and I even apologized in the night for moving around too much in bed. He got stroppy with me back in June when I had covid and I kept coughing and moving around because of the body aches. This is really out of character for him. I am hoping I turned the corner with these side effects. I am still nauseous and not ready to eat, even though I am hungry. I am just drinking Liquid IV and lots of water.
 

Lilofan

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Hello-

I did an upper body and jump rope video yesterday in addition to going out for a walk.

I got my covid booster yesterday. I think this was the worst one yet. It made me nauseous and sick to my stomach, in addition to muscle pain. headache and fever. I struggled to sleep last night and only got out of bed now. I wanted to kill my husband. He set an alarm for 7:30, so he could watch a soccer match. He opened all the drapes, which hurt my eyes. He stayed in the bedroom to watch it and I was trying to get some rest after being up with nastiness all night. He shouts when he watches these matches. Then he was asking my opinion about flights here from the UK because we're treating my MIL for flights to spend Thanksgiving with us this year. Callie returned after being away for one night and he kept texting me that she was here and was waiting in her spot for me to pet her. Then he came up to tell me that in person. I don't know if this was "retaliation" for tossing and turning and being sick in the bathroom all night or what. I wasn't doing that for fun. I felt awful and I even apologized in the night for moving around too much in bed. He got stroppy with me back in June when I had covid and I kept coughing and moving around because of the body aches. This is really out of character for him. I am hoping I turned the corner with these side effects. I am still nauseous and not ready to eat, even though I am hungry. I am just drinking Liquid IV and lots of water.
I got my covid booster yesterday too ( my 7th Moderna shot in 2 years ). No effects other than arm pain and headaches which I took Tylenol afterwards. My most intense side effects was when I received the shingles vaccine.
 

HouCuseChickie

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I have done all of her kettlebell videos. She has a five day series called "Kicka__ Kettlebell" that are ~30 minutes each. She's really good and she has several strength training programs on YouTube that are very comprehensive and free. My favorite is "Fuel".
Never used those before -- looks like a heavy workout with those weights. (Good for you for getting through that -- not sure I could do it, as it looks like some of the swing movements could mess up my back.)

I really like my kettlebells, but just don't use them as often as I should.

I got through a little over a third of that video I linked before calling it quits. It's a GREAT workout, but I'm just not ready to do it from beginning to end. I am so sore today! Unlike some of the yoga ones I've tried, I like that I'm able to do all of the movements in this video. I just don't have the stamina and muscle strength at this point go the full 30 minutes. So, it's a goal. I was started to feel a bit winded around 7 minutes and paused for a longer break...which is a bit counterproductive, but it was only an extra minute or so. I made it until just after the 10-minute mark. While no pain, I get a sensation in my hammies and glutes when I know I'm going to regret it if I keep going. Around the same time, my form started to suffer and I could feel my back beginning to tweak. So, it was time to move on.

I did bike for a little over 10 miles after that, did some triceps work, some abs, and tried to stretch stuff out. Sitting and taking the stairs are a bit rough today but just enough to know that what I did was good. I'm not sure how often I'm going to add it in, but I think it's good...even if I just do what I did for a little change of pace.
 

Sans Souci

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I got my covid booster yesterday too ( my 7th Moderna shot in 2 years ). No effects other than arm pain and headaches which I took Tylenol afterwards. My most intense side effects was when I received the shingles vaccine.

This is the only vaccine that knocks me down. I did get Shingrix and felt a bit off. But nothing else bothers me, the worst thing that happens to me with the flu vaccine is a sore arm that wakes me up in the middle of the night when I roll over on that side. lol
 

Sans Souci

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I really like my kettlebells, but just don't use them as often as I should.

I got through a little over a third of that video I linked before calling it quits. It's a GREAT workout, but I'm just not ready to do it from beginning to end. I am so sore today! Unlike some of the yoga ones I've tried, I like that I'm able to do all of the movements in this video. I just don't have the stamina and muscle strength at this point go the full 30 minutes. So, it's a goal. I was started to feel a bit winded around 7 minutes and paused for a longer break...which is a bit counterproductive, but it was only an extra minute or so. I made it until just after the 10-minute mark. While no pain, I get a sensation in my hammies and glutes when I know I'm going to regret it if I keep going. Around the same time, my form started to suffer and I could feel my back beginning to tweak. So, it was time to move on.

I did bike for a little over 10 miles after that, did some triceps work, some abs, and tried to stretch stuff out. Sitting and taking the stairs are a bit rough today but just enough to know that what I did was good. I'm not sure how often I'm going to add it in, but I think it's good...even if I just do what I did for a little change of pace.

That's good, though. Your fitness levels will return. I think it takes a lot for your body to reset your baseline fitness. Yeah, she is tough. Her HIIT work outs are torturous.I swear she is a machine and not human! It's good that you backed off when your form went. Some people let their ego guide them to force through it and that's when injuries happen. She has a 15 min KB workout, but I think it might be more intense than this one.
 

Sans Souci

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Hello-

I am back to normal today, I felt badly went I went to sleep, but I woke up feeling better. I did a leg workout this morning and I went out fior a walk, since the weather was so dry and pleasant.

I finally got Callie to take her dewormer. I bought these things called "pill pockets", which are soft, hollowed out treats where you put the pill in and then pinch the top closed. I put it out with a few of her regular treats. She sniffed it and put it her mouth, Then she dropped it. I walked away, figuring I'd pick up the pill pocket and try something else at a later date. But she ate it. I am so relieved. lol

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Songbird76

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I tend to agree. While this girl has definitely crossed some lines, learning to work it out is something that I associate with college life. Kendall also feels like she's a people pleaser. She's not that way at home, but I know it's something that bugs the other two roommates. You went through a lot with that roommate. I'm just glad the alcohol thing never was discovered. It's maddening that someone else's bad behavior and choices could have had such a devastating impact on you. It's kind of like when K got punished for vaping, simply because some girls came in to sneak a vape while she was in a stall. I feel like schools really need to do better with this kind of stuff.

I honestly have no idea how many singles there are, but there must still be a few around because I've heard of a few exceptionally bad roommate situations resulting in people being pushed out into singles. Sadly, it's always the victim and never the one causing the issues. So, that person winds up dealing with the stress of moving and the higher costs associated with a single. It's not quite as bad here with rooms, but it really depends on the school and their housing policies. Some schools with limited on-campus housing have no requirements to live on campus. Some are so "in demand" that you have to pay to enter housing lotteries to even stand a chance. Those are also the schools where apartments can be hard to come by and are insanely expensive. Others have mandates for at least freshman, so that pushes most upperclassmen into apartments. I'm kind of scared for the spring, because we'll probably have to make that decision for K by January or February and have a deposit in place for the fall. K would have had to pay something like $3,000 to waive the on-campus freshman housing requirement at OU. My alma mater was similar. Freshman and sophomores were required to live in dorms and there were meal plan mandates as well. I would really like her to become an R&A so she could have most of room/board covered, but we'll see how it goes. At least she has lot of food options. I know she was super worried that she'd need to shop for groceries all the time, but they're so spoiled!
That's what they have here....the housing lotteries. Although here, it's a waiting list in some cases, and there are some for student housing, and some just for regular standard housing. The house we are in now was a lottery system. We had been on a waiting list system for 3 years and were still at the very bottom of the list. You couldn't really get a place from the list unless you had been on the list for decades, and the majority of apartments and houses that weren't associated with a list weren't affordable. We had gone to every bank there was for mortgages. My husband is an engineer, but since I'm a foreigner and was still learning Dutch, I couldn't work fulltime. Unless you had 2 full time workers, you couldn't get a mortgage for anything more than a one bedroom apartment in a bad part of town. And student housing pretty much works the same way....you pay an initial fee to get on the list for housing in a particular university city. E's is probably one of the easiest ones to get into, because it's less desireable. It's not like most university cities....there's not much of a night life there, not much to do. Students don't go to Wageningen for the parties...they go because it's the place that offers their major. This is why it's also known as the "nerd" school. I didn't know this until I was talking with someone and they asked if E knew what she was going to do for college and I said she was going to Wageningen, and she said "Oh that's the nerd school." which totally makes sesne....that fits well with E. And I asked E about it and she said totally, yes...everyone knows it's the nerd school. People who like to party won't go there....they want to go to like...Amsterdam, or Utrecht. You only go to Wageningen if you are serious about school and don't care about the options for parties. Then when she went for an open day, the tour guide was showing the kids the biotech and molecular life sciences building and was saying that was where all the REALLY nerdy people were. And when the Biotech guy showed them the building, he showed a joke that one of the molecular life sciences people had written on the board and commented that the molecular life sciences people are really weird. He didn't know that was what she wanted to study. So basically, she's in the nerd major at the nerd college. But going to this school reduces the risk of not being able to find student housing....there are still issues, but fewer than at other schools. If she decides to get a room at some point, it shouldn't be as hard or take as long. But there are no dining hall options at universities here. You are on your own. Student housing is generally like a small apartment where you share a bathroom and kitchen with several people. There's no meal plan because there's no dining facility. And I don't know about proximity...I don't think it's necessarily on campus. Actually most universities here don't really have a "campus" as such....the buildings are spread throughout the city. E's actually does have a campus and there's a bus from the train station to the campus, so commuting is really easy and she doesn't really have to ride her bike very far. But some places will be miles from classrooms, so everyone has to bike everywhere.
 

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