I hate Liscensing Laws!! GAH

Wow, I never realized how much I take for granted that the online services I use are just for Americans! I can´t use Pandora.com (which is a freaking sweet site for listening to music, if you havne´t tried it you really should, then you can sympathize more with me not having it for a year lol), OR netflix on demand! AAAaaaaAaaaaAaah! Sad time, I´m really glad Youtube in universal though, otherwise I don´t know what I would do!
Wow a lot of exclamation points, but you get the idea. Also, more things I realized I take for granted, it is quite difficult to get ahold of coconut milk here, and the people in the regular grocery stores just look at you like your nuts when you ask for it, the same thing with ginger and limes. Go figure, I really don´t understand the lime thing since they have lemons out the ying yang...:). Luckily there is a fruit store where I was able to get some limes and ginger root, but I didn´t feel like walking all the way over to the chinese grocery store (on the other side of town, near my high school, so perhaps i´ll pick so up tomorrow) and paying like €1.50 for a can (like 2.25$). I also can´t find curry paste! And I have yet to see any sort of asian restaurant.
I had quite the interesting adventure making a version of Grandma´s thai coconut soup thing. I ended up using one can of coconut drink, and then taking a whole coconut and grinding it with some water and squeezing it to make more coconut milk. I like how the soup turned out, but its VERY different tasting from home. All the food here is quite mild and my host mom commented that it was very strong (only about as strong as tom gah kai..wait till she tries my curry :)...if I can ever get ahold of curry paste that is! :( ).
Yes there are many food things that I love here (read MANGOES, and MANGO JUICE for really cheap, and Spanish Tortilla, and cafe con leche condensada and....the list goes on :) ) but I also am starting to miss some things from home.
Ok, thats my update for now, and the moral of this story? Don´t take your thai food for granted!


BTW Loving Parents, I would be estatic if you want to the dollar store and bought me a set of plastic measuring cups and plastic measuring spoons and sent them to me :). I think there are a couple other light things that could make it like christmas in October, but I forget them right now, I´ll let you know when I remember :) (wait to send things until I remember at least one other please :) ).