transformation

okay, so i know i dont post as often as i should.
but i was thinking about it, and this is the thing...this is my normal life. i dont feel like walking to school every day...teaching...riding the bus or the metro...buying cookies from a random person on the side of the road...
none of that is really "new" to me anymore. it's just life..and i've become adapted to it.

woof. words i never thought i'd say. i have become adapted to this life...weird.

but i guess that's what happens when you're thrown into a new place...you just kinda have to figure it out...and hope for the best.

so let's see. i've been here for a month and a half...and so much has already happened...it's crazy to think about. sometimes i feel like i have been here for twelvemillionandahalf years, but other days i feel like the weeks are wizzing by.
i have ten weeks left of teaching (HALLELUJAH!)
and twelve weeks until i come home (not so hallelujah...but only a little bit)
not gunna lie, some days that feels like it will never come, and others i feel like it's coming a little too quickly.

but here's the thing.
i have things to be excited about because...

i am going to romania on thursday.
then i will be there for a weekend.

and then i teach for a week.

and then i am going to budapest, vienna, progue..alll the cool places in the world!
and then wanna know my biggest news of all?

italy. for 8 days. heaven on earth.
yes, at the end of my teaching excursion i have planned a vacation to italy. and i couldnt even be more excited!
i kinda just wanna fast forward until then. can i, please?

april is going to drag on foreevvvvverrrrr i feel like.

so that's the happiness factor of my life right now.

and on to a more interesting topic for you guys..updates!

1. so i guess this weekend has been a little weird..to say the least. my head teacher (and friend) had an unfortunate experience of having her feet go numb, and then it was crawling up her legs and so she did the smart thing and went to the doctors.
and after a tons of tests and doctor alien things, and concluded that it would be best for her if she goes home :(
so just like that, she made a call and got a flight to the U S of A for the next morning, and left.
not gunna lie, it's not going to be the same without her. i'm really sad.

2. then the snow started melting...and this country is starting to show it's true colors of garbage and mud. but i have found some new treasures of this country while the snow has been disappearing...SIDEWALKS. i didnt know they existed..and if they did i thought they were very narrow and...tiny. but i have discovered this: they in fact have rather large sidewalks. and what i used to use as a pathway of ice, is now a pathway of mud..and i have to re-route my daily walks just so i dont get stuck in the mud. it's an exciting life to say the least.

3. this one time i didnt know any other way to get home from the metro except take bus 249 to the very end ( a 40 minute bus ride) and then walk 20 minutes. i would always make this excursion at night where i couldnt recognize anything, and so i would just happily do this awful route every day because...it's all i knew.  and i never had time during the day to figure it out. until one day, i took a leap of faith and got off on the bus stop i thought was maybe near my home (i only know this because i know i live across the river from the statue..and that stop was..across the river from the statue.)

4. i still cant love teaching. is this a sign? i think so. me trying to have enough energy to be with kids all day is kind of a joke. i guess it's better i learn now...

5. i changed my major (again) communications..public relations emphasis.
i'm having identity issues with my major. i feel like if i switch it every semester, i wont ever really have to decide...and only take the fun/easy classes of the major..not the awful difficult ones :)

6. the sun never comes out. it gets a bit depressing. i dont understand how the snow melts when the sun never shines..but i wont ask any questions

7. it's woman's day on may 8th. i expect to be showered in gifts (or at least words of love and happiness

8. last weekend..we went to this village celebration. let me tell you, it was the most miserable thing on the planet earth. it was freezing cold, and all the snow had turned in to slush. and it was raining. and it was all outside. in a big open field. it's one thing to be cold. it's another to be wet and cold.

the celebration was for them to wish away winter, and welcome spring. they had food everywhere, people dressed up, accordions, singers, horses, chanting, dancing, scarecrows to be lit on fire. all that jazz. but all we could think about was how miserably cold we were. it was upsetting. it was cool, but i'm sorry...i'm not even going to lie and tell you that i had the time of my life, because i didnt. i enjoyed it...but nothing more.

9. i realized recently that the only swimming suite i brought was a bikini. and my diet does not ensure me of the fact that i will 1. fit into it and 2. look good in it. so i've started to do my exercises every day. MWF, i lock myself in a classroom at school and do zumba and p90x workouts. T/TH i do squats, lunges, abs, and all the other awful things in my bedroom. i REFUSE to look like a beached whale in italy.
except the fact that i'm still white...that's never going to change.
ugh.

10. nobody talks to me anymore!! care to update me on life (ESPECIALLY YOU, FAMILY)

:) please and thank you

anyways, i am running out of things to think of to say, and my back hurts. so i am sick of typing.

adios muchachos.