Up and Down!

there are ups and downs to being 2000 km away from home.

i miss my friends, i miss all the things that come from that, hanging out everyday, informal relationships, no language barriers, you know... the stuff that you would never think of in a million years. unless you don't have them anymore. that's when you start thinking about it.

so today i took a day off from being student and case studies and presentations and all the stress from having to do so many stuff in the same time, especially coming from a system where you don't do anything and complain all the time. here, you don't even have the time to complain anymore, because, instead you could actually get things done while complaining about it.

so, today i am listening to bad romanian music and laughing about it with a friend over the messenger. it's reinvigorating. it sort of reminds you what you are and you stand for. it is very easy indeed to get lost, psychologically speaking. you forget, try to adapt, learn new behaviours and understand others so much that you just lose track where you started in the first place.

anyway, i cannot wait to go home for the holidays, i bought my airplane tickets, i am leaving uk on 20th dec and returning on jan,3rd. I am looking very much forward to do christmas shopping for everybody in the country. i love getting other people presents. i love the challenge to find the perfect gift. and then seeing their reactions. priceless.