Getting close…

Not much to update here. My friend Michael is here again, it’s his third time here since I’ve been here. He just can’t get enough of this place… He’s staying at my place for a while. Went to Luchiano’s place the other night. He had another get-together. As usual, there was really good food including an interesting white pizza with potatoes and rosemary.

I met an interesting Czech woman there. She’s working with a refugee organization here and is getting to see the country. She mentioned that she’s from the Czech Republic but had been living in Holland for a while. Since we were talking in English, I wondered how many languages she knew. “Oh, well of course I speak Czech and Slovak, I speak French about as well as I speak English, and I picked up Dutch while I was in Holland. I just started studying Arabic, so we’ll see how it goes…” Wow, I guess some people are just better at languages than others and I suppose that living in Europe will make it a little more important to acquire languages too. Still, it’s too bad I’m leaving, she’s someone I’d like to get to know better…

Not much left to do here. I got my exit visa, now it really feels like I’m going to leave! I still need to get down to the bank and recover the deposit I had to put down in order to get a residence visa. I’m also puttering around looking for cheap, interesting things to buy. Other than those things, all I really to do is pack and get on the plane. I can’t wait!!!