Last week in Columbia
lots and lots of tears....had to say goodbye to so many important people who meant a lot to me during this year, whom I'll never forget, and whom I'll hope to cross paths and see each other again...It's so wonderful to know that I met amazing people, and even if it's sad to leave each other, it was worthed getting close and share life for a while.
Right now I'm taking a break from packing...I guess that's the least sexy side of moving away...all my "material life" will be in two suitcases for India, two big boxes in Columbia and three boxes to Italy...wow, that's everything material I own! Now, my emotional possessions are spread even more around the world...what a wonderful feeling!!!
I'll move at Sarah's for the next couple of days, then off to Jaipur for the summer!!! I'll take a bus to St.Louis, another bus to Chicago, a plane to London, another to Delhi, and finally a bus to Jaipur. I still haven't heard from my TN manager there so I still don't know who's picking me up at the station, where am I gonna stay...but I'm still pretty calm and far away from freeking out...but that's just me;)
I have bought my plane ticket this morning (never too late;), got my business visa last week (pas mal when you're 20 and you get your 3rd visa on your passport;), got something like 10 different vaccinations, a suitcase ready with medicines, bug spray, a mind full of memories from an AMAZING YEAR, one of the best of my life, and a free spirit ready to go on this adventure. I don't know what to expect, I'm not sure what to look for...I'm just open to any new experience, leaving clueless and light as a feather...

Now I should go back to clean my kitchen before the new tenants occupy the house...even if we agreed with my housemates that we didn't care about our security deposit I still feel bad leaving the house like shit...so I won't! Then Hector is gonna call me and we'll hang out for a bit tonight. Him and Jessica are leaving for Peru tomorrow morning...I cannot believe they're getting married there! They're crazy, but I love them to death! They're one of the most spontaneous couples I know, and they're so random!!! I can remember when we went skinny dipping in a lake in april when it was freezing outside...crazy friends!!! We got so wasted and still couldn't stand the ice-cold water...good times!!!

I still don't know how long I'll spend in Italy when I get back...I agreed with Landon to hang out few days in London and that will be amazing!!! I've been at the airport in London a million times but never visited the city, and mostly never partied there! Landon and I will have a blast together!! But I think I'll need to get to Lyon at the end of August...my mom still doesn't know that I probably will spend not even a week in Parma...oh well;) what can I do...I don't know if I'll ever stand having a daughter like me...nop, probably not! But now that I talk to friends who are at home, part of me wishes I was there, just doing nothing and being spoiled...but life is so much more than that! There is a whole world to discover, something like 6 billion people to meet, no time to sleep and rest!!!

I was really sad for a couple of days, emotionally really instable (I could cry for anything at any time!) but now I finally feel stronger and ready...wow, let's chase life (as Sarah Steph and I were chasing Landon's car at the Cherry street parking garage!!!)

When people ask me if I'll learn Hindi, the first answer that I tend to give is "hell no! why should I? Everybody speaks English in India!" oh, I start to sound like an ignorant American! First, not everybody speaks English! Second, how cool would it be to be so integrated to be confortable with the language, food, customs, fashions, and all the randomness of such a fascinating place as India?!?!

Zeljka, the girl who was doing the traineeship before me, sent me all the work that I will be doing and I'm so excited! The traineeship sounds amazing, fun, incredibly interesting...selling weddings and honeymoons in India!!! She sent me a website from a competitor that looks amazing...I was seriously astonished and without words when I saw it....how beautiful!! I know I'll never get married, but in case I get crazy and I lose my mind, if not in Vegas with a gay guy;), I would seriously consider an indian wedding!!! All those palaces, those magic and enchanted places....wow, I really can't wait to learn more about those and (why not?) visit them and attend some weddings;)

I guess I'll end this post with a sentence in Hindi....actually no! Since my next post will probably be from Jaipur and I'll have chances to post something in Hindi later, let's end it in Serbian, in honor of my wonderful, super crazy beautiful housemate who's now doing an internship in New York City and whom I'll miss like crazy

Cmok! (Kisses)