I hope you're all well. You better be, it's a beautiful day! Just wanted to let you all know that I'm enjoying my little layover in Vienna, for the free wireless internet especially. Five hours of getting a lot of internet stuff down, resting after a couple of action packed days.
I look up at some interesting sights...
Israeli hippies girls sitting back to back, linking arms and singing. A Kosovar who befriended our group on the plane is next to me going through his photos of home on his laptop, and to be completely honest, they are gorgeous. He has three identical glass houses by the sea, in one big row...or at least his dad does. The cutest blonde Austrian toddlers running around like little men in sweaters. A marble fountain in the center of a large, seemingly environment-friendly (greenhouse-esque) terminal hub. A man on the run, using an electric shaver in the corner behind a plant. Some dapper jetsetters mulling by here and there. A group of 42 exhausted new friends, guarding one anothers luggage, chatting, surfing the net, sleeping, watching DVDs, reading, if not looking around in awe in their first hours of life abroad. People lined up to fly to Larnaca, wherever that is (update: Cyprus). Toronto. Tel Aviv. New York. Bombay. And soon enough, Skopje.
As we were landing here, they began to blast Mozart. I wanted to clap but reconsidered.
We ate cured meats and cheese for breakfast this morning...it was one a.m. our time but whatever, free food. Now I suppose it's 3 am-ish, although here it's 9. I admit I'm in a 24 hour commute-to-Veles daze, but incredibly excited.
It was great chatting with you all before I sent off my cell phone in a heavily taped box. As you know, it may be a little hectic when we arrive, settling en masse in the hotel and the such, immediately attending the welcoming celebration where traditionally-dressed Macedonians meet us for some local cuisine, music, dance and overall jet-lagged festivities....
I'm expecting a lot of beautiful green autumn tinged landscape as we drive to Veles, a bit of well-anticipated confusion here and there, overall exhaustion, but overwhelming excitement about what is to come, and I'm especially looking forward to exploring the city the first week before our classes start.
For now, I'm sitting in this corner in Vienna, blasting Russian techno, too lazy to explore (these airports all look the same after a while). If I can't call you guys when I arrive, savor (saaaay-vor) this email in the meantime and expect a call sometime in the next few days.
All in all, I still haven't been to Macedonia, who knows what the expect :P
Love you all!!!!! Yey for fun new changes! Prijatno!!!!!!!!! Life here is about to translate into some fun Cyrillic...
I look up at some interesting sights...
Israeli hippies girls sitting back to back, linking arms and singing. A Kosovar who befriended our group on the plane is next to me going through his photos of home on his laptop, and to be completely honest, they are gorgeous. He has three identical glass houses by the sea, in one big row...or at least his dad does. The cutest blonde Austrian toddlers running around like little men in sweaters. A marble fountain in the center of a large, seemingly environment-friendly (greenhouse-esque) terminal hub. A man on the run, using an electric shaver in the corner behind a plant. Some dapper jetsetters mulling by here and there. A group of 42 exhausted new friends, guarding one anothers luggage, chatting, surfing the net, sleeping, watching DVDs, reading, if not looking around in awe in their first hours of life abroad. People lined up to fly to Larnaca, wherever that is (update: Cyprus). Toronto. Tel Aviv. New York. Bombay. And soon enough, Skopje.
As we were landing here, they began to blast Mozart. I wanted to clap but reconsidered.
We ate cured meats and cheese for breakfast this morning...it was one a.m. our time but whatever, free food. Now I suppose it's 3 am-ish, although here it's 9. I admit I'm in a 24 hour commute-to-Veles daze, but incredibly excited.
It was great chatting with you all before I sent off my cell phone in a heavily taped box. As you know, it may be a little hectic when we arrive, settling en masse in the hotel and the such, immediately attending the welcoming celebration where traditionally-dressed Macedonians meet us for some local cuisine, music, dance and overall jet-lagged festivities....
I'm expecting a lot of beautiful green autumn tinged landscape as we drive to Veles, a bit of well-anticipated confusion here and there, overall exhaustion, but overwhelming excitement about what is to come, and I'm especially looking forward to exploring the city the first week before our classes start.
For now, I'm sitting in this corner in Vienna, blasting Russian techno, too lazy to explore (these airports all look the same after a while). If I can't call you guys when I arrive, savor (saaaay-vor) this email in the meantime and expect a call sometime in the next few days.
All in all, I still haven't been to Macedonia, who knows what the expect :P
Love you all!!!!! Yey for fun new changes! Prijatno!!!!!!!!! Life here is about to translate into some fun Cyrillic...
