quick lil' update

ok so i know that it’s been a long time since i updated this but i’ve just been either too tired or too busy to sit down and make a post. But now i’m ready, so here it goes:

life with the gazda is still good. they still love to shove massive plates of food at me but now that i can actually speak romanian, i can refuse all of the food a lot easier now. i have now lost 2 pounds since being here and i think i lost them in the past week because i finally learned how to turn down food haha.

my pre service training is still going on; i’ve got less than a month left (woohoo!!) and it doesn’t seem to be dragging by so slowly now. But the most exciting bit of news is that i find out where my site will be on wednesday!!! i’m really excited and anxious to find out where i’ll be living for the next two years. in my site placement interview i was very straightforward and honest with them and told them that i am not the type of person who would enjoy living way out in the sticks with not electricity or running water and that i also don’t want to work with little kids. So....i guess we’ll just have to wait and see what type of town and what type of school they place me at.

The 4th of July was kind of fun. we had a cookout at our school and everybody came with their gazda and we had lots of food and we all sat around and talked. Some people were brave enough to try and learn traditional romanian dances but not me....i enjoyed just sitting back and watching them trip all over themselves and try to do these crazy dance steps.

Well, i think that pretty much covers everything that’s been going on since i last posted. it’s still extremely hot here; the temperature yesterday was a scorching 98 degrees. I didn’t think that when i joined the peace corps i would miss my pool so much!!!! But i really want nothing more than to just get on a plane, go to cincinnati, go to my backyard and jump in the pool and swim around for a while and then just get on a plane and come back to romania haha. that would be perfect.... i just need a dip in the pool and i’d be happy.