I need to stop eating bread and cheese.

December 29

Day Three –

Nothing too exciting to report here today… it was a dreary, cool day that consisted of sleeping in, eating bread for breakfast, pasta for lunch, and rice and veggies for dinner. (With a little shopping in the rain and watching a few movies mixed in there too.) Now, back to the eating… to think I couldn’t figure out why I was having stomach pains! And to wonder how these Europeans stay so thin! What in the world am I doing wrong back home?!

Today they all wanted to go to an indoor water park. (Based on how they pronounce it, I’m thinking it is spelled something like “Albemarle,” you know, like the plantation? But I’m not positive at all.) Anyway, a water park?! Are you freaking kidding me?! I’m slightly self-conscience as it is! I mean, my wii fit informed me the night before I left that I had not exercised with it in 64 days. Or maybe it’s just the American in me, or maybe it’s all those Kiss Cookies I inhaled on December 25th… but to put a swimsuit on right now does not sound appealing to me in the slightest. I got out of it today… but I’m not thinking I will be so lucky tomorrow. Again… I guess I will just embrace it… when in Rome… *sigh*

Oh! We had people over for dinner tonight! I’m getting pretty good at that three-kiss-cheek-thing! Here you kiss each others cheeks three times, you know, back and forth, not the same cheek, when people arrive and when they leave. Tonight was great practice when we had four guests arrive at Kirsten’s apartment. Best part of the evening, they went out of their way to speak English for me. I loved it, because I was involved and knew what was going on around me, but it does make me feel a little bad though… I mean, I’m American… which means I basically know one language and enough of another to get through high school and on to college. I really wish I had mastered another language… either German or Spanish; both would have been highly useful this January.

I lay in bed, looking at the clock on my laptop: 7:36PM (at home) and 1:36AM here. I really should attempt closing my eyes and getting some sleep... gotta get some beauty sleep for that swimsuit tomorrow! Ha!

G'nite friends. I miss you.