washing dishes...

tonight i was excited to cook because, well, it's been a while.. i bake often but actually cooking has been a rare occurrence for me recently.. i cooked for me, one of my roommates, and a friend.. i cooked stuffed peppers, mashed potatoes (with bacon bits!!, thanks allyson), coban salata, bread, and peach cobbler.... yuuum yuuuum..

problem 1 arose when i tried to prepare the food and had to rush out in the middle of it for a language tutoring lesson..

i returned an hour later to a stopped up sink.... so i continued cooking and not washing dishes... we ate and it was delicious and then we went to English Tea Time and i came home to a still stopped up sink (oour draino type liquid didn't help at all....)

since i couldn't go to sleep with a kitchen full of dirty dishes, i decided to clean them by using a plastic tub... every time the water got gross, i dumped it out the kitchen window... from the 4th floor..... i looked both ways and dumped and then closed the window quickly..

it ended up taking an HOUR! there were so many dishes! but, a good meal with friends was worth it... :)

i didn't feel so bad about dumping the water since turks don't mind dumping their trash in the sea, on the side of the road, or out their windows.. mine was just water and a few food scraps.. ha...