Another thing to get used to is the weird stares that come our way when we walk around the town. I don't really know why, Jenna thinks it is my blonde hair that is causing it. Not my fault!!!! In a book that my Mom and Dad got me for Christmas about Romania, it said that Romanians do stare a lot and do not feel the need to break eye contact just because you "caught" them staring. It also talked about how they are not the most friendly of people in general, which we have been experiencing as well. It is not that they are rude, they just don't really see the need to carry on a conversation. So for the most part, Jenna and I only have each other to talk to so far.
Yesterday/last night (Saturday/Sat Night) was a little tough. Jenna and I both were having trouble sleeping. Minds were just racing with too much to think about. I think that once we start working with the kids more it will make it feel like we have more of a reason to be here. Right now we just have too much time on our hands and not enough to accomplish. But it was nice to be able to just kinda talk about how we were feeling with each other and see that we were on the same page and know that we will help each other get through it all.
We are meeting with the ladies from the Hospital today (Monday) in a few hours to talk about what we will be doing and our schedule and everything. I think that once we get more involved in this it will make me feel a lot better about being here.
Sunday was a bit of a lost day. We accidentally stayed up too late Saturday night because we couldn't sleep. And had all intentions of going to an English sermon at a near by Church to try and meet other people that we could talk to, but we slept through it because our alarm didn't go off. Whoops!! But I think it was probably best to get a good nights sleep and for our bodies to rest. We decided to spend our Sunday by routing out our walk to the Hospital and giving it a test run. All went well! We made it their and back safely! It is about a 25 minute walk from where we are staying. It started snowing again on our walk back, so naturally I just HAD to throw snow balls at Jenna :) hahaha!! It was fun though. We have been doing a good job of trying to make the best of every situation we are in.
We found a Mcdonalds on our walk back and decided to stop and try it out. Turns out, it's actually really good here!! Who would have thought?! Well, the chicken nuggets are better, the fries not so much. And we rewarded ourselves with sundaes! They were good! One thing that is hard is having to BUY water every where because you cant drink the tap water. And if we are back in the room and don't have bottled water, it's hard. So we have been pretty good about buying a bottled water right before we head back to the room for the night.
The water is vital to have, especially because I am doing the Insanity work out cd at night. PAINFUL!!!
My calves are SO SORE!!! Every little movement hurts them hahaha. But I know that it will all pay off in the end. I was playing so much soccer before I left that I was in pretty good shape and I don't want to lose all of that while I am gone. So these work outs will help me be able to come back and still be strong!!!.... hopefully!
I miss everyone a lot, but in a good way. It reminds me of how many supportive and loving people I have in my life. I like getting to hear what is going on in people's lives, just random updates are nice. So if you have the time maybe you can send me an email or a facebook message and just let me know what is going on! My Mom said that the Daytona 500 was on yesterday, and that made me miss everyone at home and especially think of my Daddio.
I hope that everyone knows how much I love them and care about them. And how I know that this is going to be a rewarding, life changing, eye-opening experience; but, I think that mostly it is going to remind me how much I love the people that are in my life already.
I miss playing soccer, and all the people that I get to see weekly because of that. And playing Wii Just dance with Stef & Dan, and Shandley & Ally. Or playing Kinect with Buddy & Lauren. Or sadly, and I hate to admit this part, I miss Miguel sending me that stupid little Emoji icon of the Disappointed Medic. Thankfully I still have facebook access and can continue to "like" everything that my friends are doing :)
I miss Ter the question machine texting me every five minutes. I miss phone calls with Whitney dissecting every moment of The Bachelor. I miss country music and cannot wait for Stagecoach! I miss Ki & Bray a lot, they always know how to make me laugh and put a smile on my face.
Oddly enough, I am so thankful that I have things to miss. Because it reassures me that I have strong relationships with the people in my life.
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