Wow! Who knew a month would go by so quickly? Things have been moving pretty fast around here and I guess I've been losing track of time. Seem like I owe y'all a few updates.
First of all things with Eli and I are going pretty well. We're going to be spending a week in Rome for New Years and we're really excited about that. This week my American friends and I will introduce her to Thanksgiving. I'm interested to see what she thinks of American pumpkin pie (the Romanian version is a bit different, more of a pastry). Once it starts snowing (December probably) Eli is going to teach me to ski and the week before Christmas we are going to her parents place for a Romanian pig slaughter/ BBQ.
Socially, we've been doing a bunch of stuff. Once a month I go to dinner with a bunch of other expat teachers living in Bucharest and Eli was able to join us the last time. We ended up meeting two Romanian jazz artists and went to one of their concerts a few days later. We've also been able to hang out a bunch with the Americans that work at my school. We've decided to try and go bowling every Friday after school and one of these days we're going to have a board game and beer night (one of the guys I work with brews awesome beer in his apartment). I've been thinking about starting to learn how to barbecue so maybe one day we'll throw a B&B&B party. We've also spent sometime hanging out with Eli's friends from work too (a couple of concerts, a birthday party, and the Opera).
Work has been keeping me pretty busy, as usual. Things have been kind of hectic and stressful trying to manage the Model UN team. It's mostly because I don't have time to meet with the students outside of their lunch breaks and because of scheduling problems with the MUNs we've been looking at. Aside from that though things are going pretty well. Some of my middle school students are going to participate in an international public speaking competition, and things are going smoothly with the debate team (we got invited to join in a tournament in Bratislava in April and I really hope we get to go). My regular classes are also going pretty well, but I know things are going to be a little messed up with hanukkah coming up. We also have a gala coming up in a few weeks so students have been in and out of classes trying to help prepare for it.
Aside from all that things are going pretty well for me. Well except for one thing. I seem to have developed Gamer's Thumb in my right hand. For those of you playing along at home but don't want to click that link, let me explain. I've basically given myself tendentious from playing computer games for long amounts of time which has caused the tendon that connects my thumb to my wrist to go a little pear shaped. While the pain is much better now (thanks to some cream and a brace), this weekend it felt as though I was tearing something in my thumb pretty much whenever I moved it.
I'm pretty much fine though. I just won't be hitching rides or killing giants anytime soon.
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