i'm still here. i guess

Hey everyone... I'm writing to you from Inga's house in Barcelona where I've decided to camp out for the week. What a friggin' gracious host. I have two days to kill here (in the sun, shouldn't be that hard) before Primavera Sound starts. Then it's three days of that before heading back to San Se where I get to couchsurf at someone else's place. (If you'd like to host me, you know how to get in contact. :) )

Hum de hum... it's also the time to start figuring out what the hell to do with my time off. This morning I wrote up a rough sketch of the places I could hit from June 15 to July 4, when I should be in Liberec for Lukas' wedding. (I assume I'm still invited... hehe.) It looks like it's going to be one of those hit-the-capitals trips, which is unfortunate but necessary due to time constraints. I'm thinking Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, with maybe a sidetrip to Berlin before heading to Prague. But this kind of depends on whether my friends in Slovenia, Hungary, Berlin and Poland can have me - if they can't, I'll have a bit more time freed up. So, let's see what they say.

Then from Prague I'll probably go back to Tel Aviv for a couple weeks, come back to Toronto around the 20th, and I have a flight from Toronto to Yellowknife on the 27th of July. Wheee. Thanks Air Canada seat sales for making my decisions easier. I guess I should get my major landmark flights booked and out of the way, and then I'll just fill in the time between Slovenia and Liberec however I see fit. Sounds like a plan? Sounds like a plan.

well, Adrian's gone...

... and so ends a two-and-a-half week long stint of hosting couchsurfers. There were a couple moments where I couldn't spend as much time with them as I would have liked, but I think generally everything worked out fantastic. If I hosted more than one at a time we'd all hang out as a group. Adrian stayed with me for I think a week, and after a few days I started putting him in charge of taking the new ones out to things I didn't feel like doing. :P It worked out quite well. I even got in a rock-climbing session on Monday night with Eli and Adrian - and my forearms are still sore, it sure has been a while since I went.

Classes finished yesterday; I've been starting to clean out my room and organize the things I want my parents to take home and the things I'll take with me travelling. I still need to clean out the fridge and I think today's the day to also tackle some pesky clothing stains with homemade remedies and attempt to stitch up my pajama pants with my Chinese store sewing kit. I'm feeling nice and domestic, and I finally have the house all to myself :)

And as you can see, no real obligations. Delicious deliciousness.

*tear*

Ok so I did almost shed a tear when my one class's half an hour with me was up... Marivi knocked on the door and they all cried out "Noooo!" and looked at me with supplicating eyes... I gave them their little Haribo party packs and they all lined up and gave me a kiss on the cheek, I think some of them were genuinely a little down about it being the end. Awwww.

So goodbyes do suck, but I'm doing my best not to think about it. In one week I'll be in Barcelona vacaying it up. Thumbs up for that.

almost

The other evening I was out for a run and I'm pretty sure I saw somebody put their dog in a water fountain so it could get a drink. Other than grossing you out a little bit, that should give you an idea of how small some of the dogs are around here...

Rain's back with wind and cold, but I have high hopes that by the time Perk gets here the sun will peek its little head out again. Yep yep yep... after tomorrow's done it's only a week till I'm done classes. FOREVER. Muah ha ha. I'm not mourning it too much cuz well, it needs to be done sometime and the sooner the better. Work ending means I'm on vacation for two and a half months. Wheee...