Octombrie~

Hey yall. SO here is another installment of my thought process, which throughout the entire week has been extraordinarily scattered and frazzled, but that is to be expected, even after being here almost a month. :D This week has been an amazing week, the kind i hope to get week after week here in romania land. I leanred lots, met new people and had fun! In school, i had a constant headache, which is a good thing i believe, because i am attributing it to my brain trying to get its act together and gear up to learn some more romanian! I went to Bucuresti, met my host aunt and uncle, who mayyyy or may not be taking me skiing in the alps this winter, whether it be in switzerland, austria or italy, they may also be taking me to venice, no word on that yet though. Thought i would just make you all slightly jealous of me there. I hope it works though. Haha, if the rotary prison says no i may just revolt. I played tennis this week as well, which was very fun! I am getting slightly better. My serves have room for definite improvement, but i would iagine that will come with all the practice i will undoubtedly get by playing with catalin, a rotary member and my host dad. When i come back, i may just be a rafael nadal, so watch out! I took pictures of slatina yesterday, some gorgeous panoramas of oltu at sunset. I was proud of them, but for some strange reason, facebook is being a jerk and will not let me upload them! Kind of pissed about that! I keep meeting people every day! everyone knows me. PEople on the street say 'hi greg!' and i say hi back, but i reallllllly do not know them! i feel bad, because i know i met them, but they have crazy romanian names and i will never in a million years remember them all after a first meeting! haha. My contacts lsit in my phone is growing by the day as well, which feels cool. I always have a person to hang out with when i need to keep my mind occupied, which is always. It is very dangerous not to keep my mind occupied right now. And probably for then next two months or so as well. I am glad my firends can oblige! My friend geo, ana-marias boyfriend, is starting to get really excited for his upcoming trip to america, which is in december. He will be visiting ana for three weeks in kansas, then go to new york city for a week, all on his lonsesome. It is a reallly cool tour de america, he gets to see the back country as well as the biggest and brightest city in the country. He cannot wait to see his girl, and i cant blame him! good luck waiting out the next two months my friend! i hope they go by quick for your sake! I am currently in the process of applying for scholarships, which i realllly do not want to do, but i must. I can only imagine how awesome it willl be if i come out of school with no debt whatsoever. But, it is such a pain, I do not have anyone here to edit really, and it is just... blah! haha, yes mom and dad, do not worry, they will get done! haha. So next week i do not know of anything big happening, will probably play more tenis, probably, and probably i mean will, learn more romanian, as well as have ore headaches. And i hope that next week will be one similar to this week. MY friends have noticed my progress. I am sending them text messages in romanglish. ABout half of the words are in romanian and the rest, what i do not yet know, are in english. They really get a kick out of this, though i think that they are glad and proud that i am doing it! I cannot wait till i can finally speak romanian! Goals for this week, learn the language, starting texting all in romanian, and convince my rotary councelor to consider letting me go with geo and his mother to austria in about three weeks.