To the Fairest Family

So, I'm sitting in bed. It's 11:16PM. I just finished my second cookie of the evening. I guess this sort of sums up my summer so far. In anticipation of the enormous amounts of work in the coming weeks, I've taken full advantage of my zero-commitment weeks at home. This basically includes me: snuggling in bed with my enormous puppy, making awesome scrambled eggs, shopping, watching movies, and lazing about.

Unfortunately all of my television shows have been wrapping up, but fortunately re-runs are supremely available online. I'm sure my parents rue the day that I discovered what Fancast was (not that they know).

Back to this summer: I've read a couple books on Bosnia to prepare for my trip, but the more I read, the less prepared I feel. Currently I'm in a little bit of a panicked state regarding writing lesson plans. It's the feeling I often get before starting a big paper, at the point when I'm procrastinating and denying that I'm procrastinating, but miraculously, nothing is done yet.

I leave next Wednesday, fly through Chicago and Munich (which I'm pumped about: the airport's website is awesome!), and arrive in Sarajevo at noon on Thursday. From there, I'll meet my boss, wait for Lillia (the other Amherst student), and leave for Tuzla (the city where I'll live and work for the next nine weeks!).

Again, excited but nervous seems to be my prevailing sentiment.

I'm slightly worried about where I'll be living, which while being an unknown, furnished (?) apartment, may not have, say, a nice wooden spoon for my scrambled eggs. This anxiety, though small, exists alongside my worries about doing laundry (washing machine with instructions in Bosnian most likely, line dry), shopping for groceries (I still haven't managed to find a Bosnian dictionary), and getting lost (and not being able to ask for directions), continuously.

Alas, I guess I'll have to wait and see. Only a week now! Oh, other thing. No constant internet access! Apparently there's wireless in the city center, but otherwise, I'm thinking I'll be updating sporadically from cafés.

Laku noć!