nah, that calendar can't be right.

well, apparently tomorrow is march. and when that happened, i have NO idea.

but things have been happening around here and i thought you deserved a thorough update! so. what have i been doing (besides taking incredible trips to dublin, stockholm, and berlin and learning to cook delicious things)?!?

1. planning an excellent eurotrip with my favorite l.i.z.s for the month after school is out.  by "plannning" i mean "responding to all pertinent details with my opinions but not actually doing anything to help the process move along."  oops. sorry. but! things are being booked and the ball is rolllllling.
2. my roommate cut my hair. best haircut i've ever had.
3. i'm expecting my first official visitors next week!  planning their visit has been fun.
4. i've officially begun my running training for my 10k in milan at the end of the month and the half marathon here in trieste in may.  i bought some new shoes, have been running during my planning periods and after school, and today, the bora came back full force. that will definitely make things more unpleasant.

5. last, but certainly not least: i've officially decided (and told all the necessary authorities) that i won't be staying in trieste for another year.  in fact, i plan on moving back to the states at the end of the summer. new york city has just been calling my name and i couldn't say no any longer!

i'm super excited about the almost-totally-definite-plan of moving to NYC but i am sad to be leaving this international life i lead.  i just have to keep telling myself that it's not forever if i don't want it to be and that i can very easily go back abroad after being in the states for a bit.  i am just so indecisive right now about what i want to be doing and where i want to be doing it that i found myself half-heartedly applying for jobs that i wasn't really sure i wanted.  i also couldn't make the pro/con lists in favor of staying here. the bora is just SO cold.

i need to chill in a place that i KNOW i want to be in so that i can figure out a more long-term life plan.  i've always wanted to live in nyc and everyone i've ever met that has spent any time there at all has said, "oh yeah, you'll love it there. you should live there."  so, i'm going to. and who knows? i may never leave.

so i'm pretty happy about this decision.  i mean how could i not be?! how could moving to nyc ever be a bad decision?

BUT this comes down to the fact that i have 3.5 months left in trieste before leaving.  as much as i know that i don't want to stay here another year, i also know that i'm never going to have enough time to do all of the things that i want to do here!

so from here to the end, keep an eye out for "trieste bucket list" posts, updating you on my adventures in and around the area.

the bucket list so far
croatia (god i'm a loser, why haven't i been here yet?)
predjama castle in slovenia
mira mare (again, why have i not been here yet?)
walk the whole napoleonic trail (yet again, why not yet?!)

so, again! stay tuned.

x!