Tur-Tur-Key-Key

I know I said I would post a little something before Thanksgiving, but I was sort of busy moving into my new single!!! Whooo! Here are the pictures of my new place and then I will tell you the story.

That's my bed with my new Ikea pillow and in front of my bed is a dining room table. Yes. My dorm room is big enough to have a dining room table. No big deal.

Here is my large desk with an extremely comfortable chair that even has a purse hook on the back. And of course my oversized shelves.

Right and left sides of the room from the hallway. Planning on getting a mini couch or a big comfy chair to put in the corner where the black rug is.

I know it's exciting, but this is my new bathroom! So colorful, I know!

Front door and closet. Doesn't look very big, but is fairly spacious.

Yup. That's right. That is a safe in my closet.

Mini kitchen area. One of those cabinets is a fridge! Can you guess which one? :)

As you can probably tell by the captions under my pictures, I am beyond excited to have this place. It is a dorm, but it's super fancy and sort of reminds me of Santa Clara without the whole "closest-building-to-the-lake-in-all-of-Chicago" title. I received the email on Tuesday afternoon at 1pm and was completely moved in by 2:30pm. Are you surprised? Didn't think so. With the help of shopping carts (yes shopping carts...please do not judge) and my friend Ania, we were able to throw everything into the room fairly quickly and grabbed a bite to eat at an American breakfast/dinner place called "Bagels and Friends" in the City Park shops a few feet away from my dorm.

After my trip to Ikea* the other day, I feel as though I live in a studio apartment and I absolutely LOVE it! Speaking of new apartment, my new address is the following:
ul. Rokietnicka 5E/629
Poznan 60-806

*I decided that Ikea needs to have a warning sign on it in many languages. I wish I was kidding. That store is literally like a labirynth and absolutely addicting for the common shopper that just thinks that they will use a flour sifter more than that one time they bake cookies (this was just a random thing I saw everyone buying...no offense to anyone with flour sifters! I think they're great!).

To change the topic to something a bit more exciting- Thanksgiving! I hope that everyone had an absolutely WONDERFUL family and friend filled turkey holiday. I can't wait for everyone to post their pictures and hear about the random stories from one of the best American holidays! A few days before Thanksgiving, I must admit I had an emotional breakdown and was on the verge of tears because this was my first Thanksgiving away from my family and friends. After sharing my feelings with one of my two American friends, we decided to make something Thanksgivingy before actual Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, huge amount of laziness and inability to actually make anything too fancy, we stuck to what we know how to make best- pasta. Although the pasta was probably the worst pasta I had ever had because we didn't have sauce, it helped to know that I wasn't the only person away from my family during the Thanksgiving holidays. And I'm pretty sure the pasta helped me realize that it's not the end of the world that I'm not physically with my family and friends on Thanksgiving. I'm just thankful that I have family and friends to even be thankful for from halfway across the world. So on Thanksgiving, I felt that I needed to celebrate the fact that I have so many things to be thankful for. I invited my whole program to my new place (all 10 of them) and we drank wine and got ready to take on the Thanksgiving dinner that the school put on for us. Due to the fact that the lines for dinner were EXTREMELY long, we settled on ordering pizza. Even though it was one of the most random and least traditional Thanksgiving's I had ever had, I was grateful to spend it with people who actually listened to my stories about my family, friends, Thanksgiving, America and anything else I blabbed about that night.

Oh and one more thing! Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, people of all ages! We have snow on the ground. Officially as of the day before Thanksgiving, the fluffy mesmerizing white flakes set foot on the ground. Everything is white and frozen. I will take lots of pictures and post them asap :)

Other than that, I hope everyone's doing very well and I canNOT wait to get home! Not that I'm counting, but 18 daysssss!

P.S. I watch "How I Met Your Mother" and the Thanksgiving episode was to die for. Let's just say that Ted decided to stuff the turkey with another turkey calling it a tur-tur-key-key. Clever, I know! Enjoy kids!