Current mood:	excited
Current music:	Gloria Estefan
Entry tags:	career, friends, spain, travel

Spain; Teddy; New York
Like my new LJ icon? I only recently learned how to make animated .gifs, by the way... sad, I know. But now I'm having fun making animated icons. I made this icon from an LOL Cats image... I love this one. LOL Cats is amusing, but boy do I get sick of seeing the stupid captions with intentionally poor grammar and spelling. It gets old. So, I like this "camoflage" one since it 1) is well made, 2) does not contain "cute" poor grammar or spelling, and 3) is SOOO CUTE! I need this as a poster...

Anyway, good news, people: next year I am going to SPAIN!!! So right now I'm listening to my "Latin Mix" on iTunes, which mainly consists of Maná, Gloria Estefan, and Shakira. I seriously need to expand my collection.... I can only listen to Maná so many times (as much as I love them). OK, now I'm just listening to Gloria Estefan. I figure the more Spanish I listen to, the more it'll help when I get to Spain. Not that I doubt my Spanish... but it helps to get in the mood. I'm really excited! I speak Spanish way better than I speak German, even though I've studied German throughout most of college and have spent more time in Germany than I have in any Spanish-speaking country.

I'm still nervous about going to Spain... and I know Brian isn't too excited about it, of course. I'm looking at all sorts of things online to get me looking forward to this (I already am, though :).

Right now the mother of my best friend, Teddy, is here in the US. We drove to Boston to pick her up. Teddy's mom is so awesome!!! I love her... she can't speak a word of English (OK... she can speak a few words... but no more than I know Bulgarian!), so Teddy has been an amazing interpreter for her. I've been learning bits and pieces of Bulgarian lately. It's been really fun. Last night we had dinner with my family. Today I'm going to drive us up to Vermont for a few days, then on Wednesday we'll come back down to Mass for the graduation festivities.

So yeah, things are exciting, and I have a plan for next year. I should be in Spain from September-May. So, I still need summer plans. I'll see what happens. Brian expects me to move with him to New York if he gets this job that he's applying for. I guess I will... but I admit I'm intimidated at the thought of moving to NY. It's way too big a city for my taste, but I can give it a try. If Brian is willing to put up with me running off to Spain for the better part of a year, I guess I can put up with living in the "Big Apple". haha :)

Peace out!