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During the day, in Holland, we could do whatever we wanted. Go to the swimming pool, beach, supermarket, trampoline, city, for a jog, in the sauna, or just watch T.V. There were eight girls all living together in one house, so we could normally find someone to do something with us. We didn't have to worry about food, either. Our dinner was pretty much already made. It was some sort of meat with all of the spices and sauces already added (except when we had chili, then we had to add canned corn and beans) and then we heated that (it was frozen in a plastic baggie) in a pot and cooked rice or pasta. We would write a grocery list with milk, eggs, pancake mix, pudding, bread, lunch meats, etc on it and give it to the person in charge of food and the next day we would pick up it up. The food was already payed for except for snacks which we had to buy from the store ourselves.