A long, long day today.

My plan was to go to the optician to get glasses. I was worried about that. Scared, even. The last time I went shopping for glasses I was like 13 and had my mummy with me to make decisions for me. Standing on my own two legs is scarier. Easy to stumble.

So I was sitting at work with a nervous rumble in my stomach about that. And then Sanne decided to tell me that I was going on an intro tour today. Almost all day. It made me paranoid at first, visions of sitting in a group of 50 strangers, playing name games and other horrible things. But it turned out to be 5 people and we just went on a tour of the place. I had been on a tour already with Sanne. But this tour went to the City Sleepin too, the youth hostel place that Kulturgyngen runs too. It was a 10 minute walk away from our main place.

All in all it was an okay tour, just a lot of time to spend on something I can't really use much. I'm not planning on seeking jobs in any of the other departments in Kulturgyngen.

When it was done I was tired and my head was starting to hurt. And the optician stuff was worrying me. So I wasn't feeling altogether great. But when I got off work I quickly found the Profil Optik store that I had singled out. Only a 6 minute walk from work, that was handy. I was very nervous when I got in there. A nice lady asked if she could help me, we talked for a minute and I said I just wanted to look on my own. And that's what I did. Lots of glasses hanging on the wall. Skye had sent me a file with some pictures of glasses she liked, so I tried to look for things like that. Honestly, I have no clue about fashion. And I'm not the most attractive person in the world. I trust Skye's opinion on these things much more than my own. We had even talked about me buying my glasses when I went to visit her in the Netherlands so she could help me pick them out. But that didn't happen. I just want a pair of glasses that she thinks is nice, then I'm happy.

Eventually I picked out 4 pairs. That's what you're allowed to bring home. Loaners, so you can show your family and get their opinion. Or your dutch girlfriends. And I loaned them without problems, talked a little to the clerk about lens sizes and prices. I need very strong glasses. I'm probably looking at spending 5-6000 kroners on this. It's a lot of money, but then I really do need new ones. These old ones are scratched and losened and just down-right dying. Hopefully my new ones will last me a long time too.

Left the store feeling quite well. I'm happy with how it went, I'm happy I got through it. Now Skye and I are deciding on which pair to choose. I'll probably be going back to the store on Thursday to get my eye sight test and then order the glasses.

And now I'm drained. New people, new places, important decisions. It's been a long day.

Thanks for listening.

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