Nedtælling (Counting down)

I've been doing a lot of counting lately.

It's been 7 days since my last blog post, which is a long time by my standards, but it's been a low key week. No adventures, no ridiculous drunk times, one shift at Cafeen that was extremely uneventful and lots of homework.

So, yeah lots of counting.

The first thing I've been counting is pounds and reps. I made the horrible discovery that I've gained seven pounds since coming here, which I can assure you is purely alcohol weight. So the past three weeks I've been really hitting the gym and especially this week since I have so much time right now.

The second thing I've been counting is days. This week was kind of a lull in between my last adventure and my next one. The next one is a trip to Flensburg with Team 11. We rented a house that has a pool and sauna and is absolutely massive. So we're going to go and get drunk and go shopping since Germany is so cheap. It's going to be 12 of us, 6 girls and 6 guys and I'm so so excited. So that's six days away.

I'm also counting down the days until I go to Copenhagen. That number is ten. Dad and Mazy are flying into Florence for a few days and then they're coming up here and we're going to spend a few days there after my birthday (which is in nine days, something that I've been dreading. Mid-life crisis.) I'm really excited to see them. I've just really been needing a taste of home lately. It's not that I'm extremely homesick, it'll just nice to see some familiar faces.

And finally, I'm counting pages. Pages and pages of studying. Because I essentially didn't do school for the first half of the semester, I have a lot of catching up to do. It occurred to me that, even though I'm on a pass/fail basis, I still have to actually pass, so I'm kind of buckling down here because the next few weeks are going to pick up again.

So while I know I shouldn't be counting down time, or reps or pages or anything because I only have so much time left here, I do get bored easily and I need something to look forward to in order to get through all this work.

Give me a few days here, I promise I'll have more exciting things to write about.

PS. Went out last night and while we were sitting in Cafeen waiting for things to pick up, this film crew came in to film an ad for a program at the University. I got to talking to the director about how I'm interested in making a career out of film and he said his company in Copenhagen is always looking for interns. Anyway he gave me his card and told me to get in contact with him! Ahh, so exciting. The film career is something that I'd love to do but am always afraid to take the risk, but after last night, I'm thinking maybe I can actually do it.