Today I bought a frying pan. And yesterday I did my laundry. It's funny how the tiniest things here become a big deal, like buying laundry detergent. I went into my local Fontprix market and found the cleaning supply corner, because here there are corners, not aisles, and faced the wall of what appeared to be laundry detergent. I spotted bottles of what was obviously detergent, as there were images of children in bright colors with grass stains and food stains disappearing from the clothes, but those bottle cost about 10 Euros a piece, and that's a bit much for my student budget. The powders were cheaper, but I don't like powders because sometimes they don't rinse well and make it look like you have a horrible case of dandruff. So then I was left looking
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