bulletpoints again.
hopefully the motivation will come again as well.
- slept til 1 :)
- lunch at 2
- pool!
- we had to pay 30 lei to use the hotel pool. (=$15. per day!) BUT. it was nice. the top was windows, and all the walls were painted greek style, with painted leaves hanging down from the lamps, and columns painted, and scenery painted on the sides. There was also a jacuzzi, a sauna, and a hamam. I've never been in one of those before. It was HOT so Alida and I only made it about a minute and a half, but it's basically a steam room. Hot steam rises up into a closed tiled room. It was nice. Alida described one near her home in Montpelier that she loves a lot. Anyway, so we swam, read a little by the pool, jacuzzi-ed, etc. It was fun. And it killed about 2.5 hours.
- Shower. Carmen returns from trip to Bucharest that I didn't find out about til she returned. (She just wasn't there when I got back at 4am. Unexpected. But she's quite nice. We haven't spoken much, but we're definitely respectful of each other in the room, and so far she's very easy to live with, (though admittedly i haven't seen her very much,) and hopefully she'll start coming out with us a little more often. We'll see.
- There was supposed to be a "cultural Romanian night." I believe it was supposed to consist of a video/presentation sort of thing and a typical Romanian dinner. There were problems with the laptop that the presentation was on, so we ended up just having the dinner. Oana said hi to make sure that everything is ok. She's being very very nice.
- Went out with Alida, Franz, (oh yeah. France's name is Franz. But he really does say it like France.) and this German guy who's name I don't know to get ice cream and coffee.
- We came home pretty early because we have to wake up super early tomorrow. (classes are beginning. eek. i'm actually really nervous. i have yet to get over my romanian shame and even the friends i've made here and just told me to suck it up and speak. and actually, i think there are more beginners that are worse than me than there are advanced speakers that are far better than me. But of course, the group of people I've befriended are either high intermediate or advanced. And so i'm intimidated! but my friends have inisisted that starting tomorrow we're going to speak Romanian between us. That's interesting, because they can say almost everything, if not everything that they need to say, in Romanian. I, on the other hand, most definitely cannot. So we'll see how that goes. I'm kind of annoying. Because I want it to get easier. But it has to get hard before it gets easy and I try so hard to avoid being at all embarrassed or ashamed. And without those, I'll just never speak. (And without speaking, I'll never learn.) So I do understand the detrimental nature of my retarded ashamed mindset. Especially in this setting where we're all here to learn the language. But we're only 3 days in. So I've got 3 weeks to make it happen.
- And on that note. wtf? I'm only 3 days in? I feel like I've been here forever. Jesus.
I'm gonna go to bed soon. I'm definitely in need of some sleep. (Am I ever not?)
-love you all. miss you all. sorry if i'm edgy on the phone. as dad pointed out to me, i need to get out of my new york mindset. stress and craziness and ten-things-at-one don't work here. things are just calm. dare i say, relaxed. I, on the other hand, don't really know the definitions of those words or how to apply them to my brain or life. but again. i'm a few days in. a lot more to go. we'll see...
nightnight.
