Carrefour

Today my roommate Krzysiek, Chris for short, and I did some much needed grocery shopping. The cost of food on campus is astronomical so we thought it would be a wise idea to stock up food for breakfast and maybe lunch or dinner, in an attempt to save some money for travel. Carrefour is a chain of stores much like Wal-Mart, but on roids. It's like a mall, electronics store, grocery store and food service rolled into one. This place is enormous, and has the holding capacity of a small nation. Fortunately for us today there were only 5 billion shoppers today. Shoppers....they are really more like a ruthless, savage, band of rag-tag bikers. Navigating through this place with a cart which performed more like a giant clumsy ice skate, as all four wheels pivoted causing the driver to get a hellatious ab workout attempting to steer this thing in a straight line, would be enough to drive one insane. Apparently no one else has mastered the straight line either because you actually come out of there with bruises due to a misdirected cart into your hip. I actually had one woman driver the front of her cart into both my achilles'. There's no sense in being polite, you actually force you way through crowds using your cart as a battering ram. Shopping nearly brought to my wits end, any lesser of a man and I would have never made it out alive. Oh and need I mention, NO ONE speaks English! What an experience...