This week has been mentally exhausting. I'm a bit down and have been asking 'the big questions' about what I want out of life, if languages are something I really want to pursue or not. I've decided that for now, yes, as I enjoy it most of the time, despite feeling at times completely lost and useless. Hopefully I will make it as an interpreter/translator, but then again if something else unrelated to languages decides to comes my way, that's ok too, that's life after all! Communication is all we have and sometimes I can't even pick up the simplest of foreign phrases! As every learner of a language will also know, understanding more than you can speak is also frustrating! I really should stop being so hard on myself though!
I am really missing people back home, so need to find some friends quick.. Personally I don't like wandering around on my own (as I always get lost due to my rubbish sense of direction) and prefer to explore a city with other people.. I get too lonely on my own! To add to my frustrations, my laptop is having a love/hate affair with the Internet here, so Skype conversations have been at times incredibly tedious...blurry faces, robotic sounding voices and echoing. Top of my list of hates (if I had one... which I don't as I'm a carefree, happy-go-lucky gal... unless you mention the aforementioned 'S' word!)
This week I vow to get my bum in gear and go for a run/cycle through some fields, of which there are many!* May also start mediating/doing yoga in a bid to find my inner self, ja. Seriously, I do think I need to relax a bit more and not let worries get to me!
*I really hope this happens....reality may be another thing!
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