Nothing big and intense today, my brain is frying!
I'm stuck on the first page of a french paper...I feel like I know exactly what to write, and yet words don't come out...it makes me so mad and frustrated! I think I'm just tired, but I can't sleep cause I wanna get this paper done!!!!! no logic whatsoever;)
oh well...the paper is on french colonialism. I'm giving a little historic background (the very boring part of the paper), then I'm talking about the effects of colonialism in general, positive and negative, quoting few people and their opinion, talking about the law that chirac proposed last year to recognize in school programs the POSITIVE ROLE of french colonialism in honor of the people who died and fought oversea (of course french people, cause the ones colonized are not important, right monsieur president?), and i end with my own opinion about overall colonialism, and how i think it impacted history and economic development in general. it has to be 5 pages, so i might include some specific examples in it. see? i have perfectly outlined, it just won't come out!!! mmm, it's making me nervous and angry!
other than that, Berlusconi is finally OUT of the italian government...era ora! the new government is very weak but we'll see what will happen
Last weekend I participated with some friends in the Global Night Commute, a walk + sleepover downtown to join for one night the kids in Uganda. There were about 200 people and it was very powerful to see so many people who cared! We all slept in a parking garage since it was raining outside...it was quite cold and unconfortable, so around 2 am Sarah Steph and I decided to go sleep in the car;) oh cheaters! A lot of other cities in the States participated in the commute....it's nice to see how the effort of people together can actually make a change! We'll see what will happen and if media will start giving more attention to the situation. There has been the big rally in DC for the genocide in Darfur, and I'm happy to see how people are becoming finally aware of this humanitarian crisis. The situation over there doesn't seem like improving, but at least it's moving in the right direction. Yesterday there was the general protest of mexian immigrants to show the US how important they are for the economy. It doesn't seem like it has done much rumor though....my old french ta told me about a website that I found really interesting, here is the link
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Mexicos_Glass_House.pdf

it shows the hypocrisy of those who claim US nationality, holding signs such as WE ARE AMERICA, while they make it much harder in Mexico to give nationality to immigrants from other countries. Read the article, it's really interesting! Especially it hasn't had much attention, and I couldn't find anything about it on italian or french websites...enjoy!

My life will be super super busy for these next two weeks! I finally decided to go to India for the summer. I'll be working on a marketing traineeship in Jaipur, India, doing promotions and PRs for a company that sells wedding "packets" to non residential indians. It sounds really fun and I'll be living in India for 3 months!!! I'm really excited! In the meanwhile, I'm applying for a business visa, I'm looking for the cheapest airplane tickets, and of course I'm preparing for exams! In all of this stress, my purse got stolen last week in a club, so I have no more phone, camera, I had to block all of my credit cards, both here and in Italy...a real pain! but I got everything worked out, bought a used phone on ebay (this year I haven't had much luck with cellphones!), and I'm ready to go! There are only those 6 exams in the way that kind of bother me, but once I'm done with those I'M DONE!!!

I start being a little sad, I'll leave the US for 8 months and I will miss a lot of things. Especially people! And there are some of my good friends who will be leaving between now and December, and I know that when I come back it won't be the same. I get really attached to people and it gets so hard to say goodbye!

But I'm getting more and more excited about my semester in Lyon. I want to be able to speak french like a goddess, meet new people, live in a new environment, HAVE TONZ AND TONZ OF FUN! and mostly I'll be back in Europe! it's so closed to everything! I want to visit Steph in Spain, Yvon in the Netherlands, Brodie in Scotland, come home, ski (I miss skiing so much), and then Prague, Vienna...I just can't wait! Right now I can just see myself skipping classes and just go on random trips;)

Life is beautiful, no matter how busy we get complaining about it. I need to spend more time appreciating it...all of us should!
Dovizhdane! (that's goodbye in bulgarian;)