Just thoughts

Just a couple of thoughts while I'm here at school and the computer is free....

This is both harder and easier than I thought it would be, both mentally and physically. The cobblestones are "kicking my butt". Uneven, different heights, missing...all makes for interesting walking. I'm amazed I haven't fallen, and grateful that my muscles are strong enough to catch me for the first time in years! Lots of stairs...my class in on the 3rd floor...and physically I'm tired a lot but not really hurting like I used to. It's been a long time since I was just "tired". I couldn't do enough to get tired!

Mentally, the courses are so intense that I have to work really hard to keep up. I feel like I take one step forward and 2 back. There is no way to keep up with the vocabulary I learn every day...so I'm constantly saying I forget! But I'm learning a lot!!! I was optomistic that I would be fluent in 3 months...am I crazy?? I'm not even fluent in english and I've spoken it for 50 years! But hopefully I'll know enough to start to do what I need to do.

My ability to talk to a dead stick and have it talk back is still working....yesterday I was in the square and heard a man speaking English on the phone. When he was finished..I stopped him and asked him how to get a phone here. 10 minutes later he's taking me to the phone store and making sure I knew how and where to buy phones and minutes. I've met people in bars (WHAT a surprise), in school, or in restaurants. It's fun. One of my freinds in Houston that I was in school with gave me a couple of names to look up, and I've met them and know if I get in trouble I have a place to go!

I do miss my friends in Houston and at TWU. It's interesting how that works emotionally for me. I miss you all, but I wouldn'tr change what I am doing now for anything. Take care of yourselves...I am. LOL
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