ok well i have to redeem the unhappiness of this afternoon's post with a happy summary of the evening. mom: again, sorry about the phone. you're not getting the best end of me today. :( sorry.
so after the blog entry I took a short nap, went for a walk, and read a little, and spoke to my mom on the phone. Then I called Oana to ask if I could go over and give her the gifts. And I did. And then I asked her when/where dinner was, and she said that we would go downstairs and she could show me, and then asked if I had met the spanish girl. I told her no, and that I didn't think she had arrived. She told me that she must have arrived, because she (Oana) had called my room looking for me, (probably while I was out taking the walk,) and that this girl, Carmen, had picked up the phone. Then she asked quizzically if I hadn't noticed any luggage in the room? Now I'm usually a pretty perceptive person, so surprised myself, I told her no. So before we went downstairs, I stopped by my room to get my bag and looked if I had somehow missed a big suitcase sitting in the room. But there was no luggage in the room. So I said that to Oana when I came back out, and so the two of us went to the lobby and asked if this girl had requested to change rooms or something. But the woman at the desk just said that she had arrived, that they had put her in my room, and that they had told her that she had a roommate, and that was all. Soo that was particularly curious. BUT this is when the story gets good. So these 2 girls that i know are part of the program are standing there putting their passports and stuff in the hotel safe. (PS. mom/dad: should i do that? and if so, should i also put $$?) Anndd I had heard them say that they were in room 519. (I'm in 520.) It appears that only one of them speaks Romanian well, so between them they speak English. Annywayy, so I go up to the one in Romanian, and ask, in hesitant/shitty Romanian, if they're in room 519, and tell them that I'm in 520. I only did that because when Oana had showed me the restaurant area where we were eating, it was completely empty, annnddd i really wanted eating buddies. Annndd I had successfully found some! So that was good. One girl, Alida, was from France, and the other, Dalia, was from Turkey. And the 3 of us ate together. And Dalia had met 2 other people from Turkey, that were sitting at another people, and so the 2 people from Turkey came over when they were finished to tell us that they were going out for drinks, and asked us if we wanted to come. Soooo we went. And it was the 2 turkish guys, two girls from greece, this guy karim from luxembourg, (he was the one in the van with me, who's been learning since March,) the two girls I ate with, (Alida and Dalia,) this guy from the Netherlands named France. (ironic as that sounds, i'm quite sure that's right.) And that was actually quite fun. It was mellow, and the conversation wasn't really exciting, but it was cool, because I was mainly talking with France, Karim, and Alida, (that sounds weird..), and they all speak French, and speak Romanian pretty well, and speak English pretty well. (I'm inferior to everyone in French, probably to everyone in Romanian, but perhaps not to France, and well...at least I'm winning in English....but they speak English well too!) I'm really outdone with the languages. But anyway, so all 3 languages were getting thrown around, having one conversation in French and another in Romanian, then a few in English, and there was usually a da thrown around in the French conversation, and a yes in the Romanian, and it was really cool. Though I was still really intimidated and said like 2 words in french, and very little in Romanian. I know I shouldn't be intimidated, and that they're just students like me, but they're so superior at all the languages! it's insane! and here i come, flouncing along with my ridiculous american accent, i just feel a bit like a joke. I know I should get over it. I'm trying. But it's hard. Shameless-ness doesn't come very easily.
BUT the night overall was fun. And hearing all the difference languages was pretty awesome. Very L'auberge Espagnol - esque. And at the very least, I'm thrilled to have breakfast buddies for tomorrow morning, and hopefully meal buddies from now on. On the other hand, this was only like 11 people, and I'm curious as to what the other 20 are up to?
Oh! So. We came home from dinner, and I carefully walked into the room wondering whether or not I was going to find this supposed Spanish roommate. But alas! She was not there. So I gave Oana a call to let her know, and she was like, "well i can't do anything at this point," and I was trying to tell her that I didn't want, let alone expect, her to do anything, I just thought I had some kind of obligation to let her know that one of the students was missing. So I get a room to myself tonight. :) Oana said that maybe she knew someone in the area and was staying with them, but I'm hoping that she knew someone in the hotel and is staying with them, and that i'll get a single room without the extra money. But I probably just jinxed it by saying that. But whatever, at least I get to sleep and shower in peace for one more night. wooooo.
So today redeemed itself. I'm still kind of homesick. Which as my mother pointed out, is weird. I went to france for the past 2 summers and have gone away for extended time before, and wasn't homesick at all. I think it has to do with the fact that this is more foreign, (can a country be more foreign?) or that I just don't know how to say anything or do anything or talk to anyone, etc. But I suppose things will be alright.
hope I didn't leave anything out. email me pleeasseeee. lotsalove.
