Great Day!

I had been feeling a bit down since coming back from Eurotrip 2006. I keep telling myself if don't unpack my suitcases (still not unpacked as of today), the trip's not really over... although if I am honest with myself, when my brother got on the airplane here in Budapest to go back to the States, I guess that was the official end of our adventure. Anyway, so I was feeling a bit down. But yesterday was definitely a good day and hopefully is the beginning of my turn around.
I was actually dreading the day- first of the term for me, since I don't have class on Mondays. One of my classes turned out to be quite interesting, I skipped the second half of micro to go shopping, bought a photo album for Eurotrip pics and memoirs, was AGAIN mistaken for a Hungarian walking on Vaci utca, enrolled in French and actually recalled the word for vegetables after seven years of not taking French, and started planning my next trip. Overall a very positive day!

Speaking of my next trip, a little background. On Eurotrip 2006 Ryan helped me make a list of all the places I want to go in the next 2-3 years. The non-abridged list of places follows:

South of France
South of Spain
Morocco
South Africa (2010 World Cup)
Vietnam (to visit a friend who will be posted there with the State Dept later this year)
Hong Kong
China
India
Prague
Amsterdam
Berlin (where we were supposed to go on this past trip, but could not get a spot on the train)
Krakow
Romania
Ukraine
Latvia (where a friend of mine from the university is from)
Istanbul, Turkey
Greece
Buenos Aires
Brazil
Toronto

You probably did not count the number of items, so I will save you the time and tell you there are 20 places I am absolutely dying to go to. Yes, I just got back from a three-week, six-city tour. You'd think I'd be set on the travel front for awhile. But let's be honest... no point in wasting time, right? So it looks like Aaron and I will knock off Krakow next weekend. I am also working on Greece and Spain, since I have friends in both places. And I am going to use the rest of my Eurail pass to go to Berlin one weekend... anyone want to go? And Prague and Romania are right around the corner (albeit different corners, of course), so that will definitely happen. Amsterdam, Istanbul, S. France and Ukraine are all very do-able this year. So if I manage to get all those done, I will be down to ten. Not bad.

That's about it from here. Back to my reading. Hope you're doing well and your outlook on life is as pleasant as mine is right now. Hugs from Budapest!