So it has been just about a full month since i have last updated, wow, that is a new record of laziness even for me i think. I dont know why i didnt update, but i didnt. But this morning, i have the day off from school, i decided something must be done. so actually quite a bit has happened since my last post i have jsut realized. I have had my birthday, rehearsals have started for my play, the baddest angel band, and yesterday was thanksgiving! woot woot! Let me start with my birthday, which was absolutley incredible. Ok, so it was a monday, whcih kind of is a sucky day to have a birthday. You have to wake up to go to school, and it is the first day of a long week of school, you all know what i am talking about i think. I got up, totally not remembering that it was my birthday until my mother said to me as i was walking like a zombie into the bathroom, "La multi ani!" which is surprise surprise, how romanians say happy birthday. i think it means something like many years. That was cool, i totally like say it that way, for some reason it sounds cooler than aying happy birthday. :D anyway i brushed my teeth, got ready for school and headed out. My friends had texted me the night before and asked me to meet ehr a little bit early out in front of the donut stand. so i did, and it was so cool. For those of you who do not know, our family has a tradition where we wake up the birthday person with a muffin and a candle in it, along with a loud, rousing chorusof happy birthday. Each of us always has a particular muffin that we get too, usually from dunks. Mine happens to be coffee cake for all those who are curious. :) anywho, i got there, and she had something behind her back, and she told me to close my eyes for a second. So i did, i heard her ask for somethign from another friend i was talking to and when i opened my eyes there was a candle stuck inside a muffin. I forgot that i had told her i was not going to get my yearly muffin, like 2 weeks prior. It was awesome, i smiled wide, gave her a huge hug and gulped down my muffin after making a birthday wish. :) so we went to pe, the first class of monday morning, whoever was n charge of making vlasses is truly evil, and went through the day. Everyone, knowing that i am american, said happy birthday to me as i passed. Way more people than i thought knew it was my birthday. It was actually kind of weird. Literally 75 percent of the school or more said happy birthday to me. i am ok with it, i was just curious how they all know so much about me all the time. :P anyway, we went through the first few classes, and it was fine, just another day at school. Actually my birthday happens to rest on the day of st. mihai, the name of many people in my class, and therefore it is an occasion somewhat similar to their actual birthdays, everyone sings happy birthday to them too, so we did that. Then during the large break we have at 10 or eleven, i can not remember which right now, me and my friend deea went to the store to get our ritualistic snitel sandwich, delicious piece of work from the "fast food" restaraunt next to the school, owned by "tante claudia" who is aweosme. :D we stayed outside on a bench eating it, just a normal break, me thinking about hoow boring the next class was going to be. We went back after i had finsihed my sandwich, and when i opened the dorr, the lights were off, there was a mass of people in the center of the room, their faces light ominously by the candles on a massive birthday cake. Then started the romanian birthday song, much longer and much more interesting than ours, i wish i learned it, and they all came towrds me at once. I was taken completley by surprise. As well i should have! It was my first surprise party ever, and it was soooo awesome! they sang in romanian, then they sang in the english version. I was smiling so wide at this point. I blew out the candles and they gave me a present from the class. A nice watch, and a toy version of a mini cooper, which they learned was my dream car. :D The school also gave me a traditional romanian rug, which is to grace my dorm room if i have my way. :D i cut the cake, hugged and thank many many people, iincluding my head teacher, my principal, and importantly my english teacher, who had a large part in orchestratign it. we ate, drank soda, and had a dance party. I taught them the cotton eye joe, which they seemed to find more difficult than their traditional dances, which they tried to teach me, like a hora and some other ones. I was thoroughly confused by them. But whatever. It was fun. This went on for the last two classes of the day and it was a grand time. After that, i went home, talked to people on the phone and on skype and later that evening i went out with two of my best friends and we hung out in a park for hours just talking and having a good time. It was an amazing experience. What could have been a sad, homesick filled one, turned out to be amazing because i have awesome friends here. I really do. :D
Ok, in other news, my play rehearsals have started. If you do not remember, i was asked to direct a play, in english, for christmas. I, being the fool i am , accepted, totally not knowing what i am getting myself into. I had to choose the play, cast it and produce it. So i held auditions, seeing who would turn out, which there were around thirty girls and then 6 boys. I chose my play, the baddest angel band, a short play about three angels who get kicked out of heaven for screwing around and to stay in they have to find a reason for earth to keep on turning. lucky for them it is christmas. yadda yadda yadda, much hilarity and witty comment later, christmas and earth are saved. It is a good play, and the casting was ok. Then as rehearsals went on, less and less people started showing up, even my friends, who said in the beginning they would help with what i need, stopped showing up. Anywho, i started with 17 or so, i am now down to i think 9. But it is ok, i making do. there are more lines for people, and those who continue to show are talented and very fun to be with. THANK YOU GUYS! we wstil have time to work ont he ply, as it is dcember 20th, but i am getting slightly nervous alreay. My cast is working hard, and i am sure it will be fine, but i do not want my baby to be a flop, you know?
Yesterday was thanksgiving! hooray! i said happy thanksgiving to people yesterday and they were like oh, is that today? and went about their business. Haha, whatever, i do not mind. It is another cultural difference that is both interesting and expected. :D In lieu of turkey and gorging myself, i made egg and cheese sandwiches, blated music while i ate them, and watched evolution. It was actually ook, i didnt mind. :D OH! by the way, it is good that the pats finally got their buts in gear yesterday and decided to be the lions. I would have been rather angry if they lost to the lions. :P So i hope you all ate much and had a grand time yesterday. :D
I am just about used to romania. It is ok now. I am used to school, i am used to the way you do things at restaraunts, i am used to dinner and lunch. It is good. I am proud of my self. I have had several conversations in romanian, and i am still trying to learn as much as i can. I am worried that i do not know as much as the other exchange students, but whatever. I can still deal and i know quite a bit. I am happy with what i have got. One of the biggest things that i am sad about is harry potter. I still have yet to see it, as there are no movie theatres in within reasonable distance. There is actually one opening up in slatina (maybe today?) but i am not sure exactly what movies are going to be playing, and for that matter if i will even be able to get in, because everyone has been waiting years for this. whatever, i am sure i will see it. I am re reading the book just so i can remember things. It is as excellent as i remember. :D
Ok, i really havent anyting to talk about. :D sorry i havent updated for so long. Maybe i will fix that. ;)
