Hmmm, I have a taste for a toffee cookie. Maybe I'll make a trip to McDonald's today. Oh, and a note: I can't actually open new windows on my computer, so please forgive me if I'm really slow with reading other peoples' blogs/commenting. I do catch up when I go to the library, though.

Anyway, so I've realized that studying abroad in a non-English-speaking country is just harder than studying in an English-speaking country. I think that's also why I've been so frustrated recently. For one thing, you can't almost instantly feel at home when you can barely communicate. Luckily, I've ben feeling a lot more optimistic lately. That's probably because I'm not sick anymore. Yea! Also, my internship is going well. Yesterday, I got to watch the doctors do baby examinations, and I got to watch as the nurses were checking the blood sugars of newborns. I still am considering teaching as an option over doing this for the rest of my life. I am also excited about planning fun things to do the rest of my time here. Next weekend is Salzburg! I am so ready!! The next week I think I'm going to see an opera (the tickets are really cheap here). The weekend after that--the weekend of the 21st--some people on my program are going to Hamburg. I'm not sure I'm up for that, though. I really don't want to do major traveling every weekend, because I'm just so exhausted on the weekends. Plus, I have to be at work at 7am on Monday. We'll see. The weekend after that is Thanksgiving, and after that I need to do work for my internship portfolio. Whew. Other than that, there's some time at the end of the program to travel. I'm actually considering going to Liepaja, Latvia, for a day or two to see a friend I haven't seen in a while. I definitely want to see Haarlem in the the Netherlands. The Corrie Ten Boom museum is there, and I really want to go ice skating in the Netherlands. The last place I need to go is Stockholm. Why? Tickets are cheap, and there's so much to see. High on my list are the Pippi Longstocking museum, the open-air museum, and maybe the opera. I'm still thinking of going back to the UK, but now I'm leaning towards not going back. Why? I've already been there a bunch of times and will probably be back. Plus, with my friend's work schedule, I'm not sure she'll be able to get much time off to do stuff (and other people I hung out with will probably have exams), especially if she's saving up time for Christmas.
In other news, I applied for a sort of host family. What that means is I just do stuff with them every once in a while, not that I live with them. Yesterday, I met them for the first time: a young couple and their 1.5-year-old daughter. It was great. They cooked dinner for me, and we talked to the while. The wife (who is teacher) even said I could come to her class some time to see what it's like. Yea!
Anyway, this is getting long and rambly, so I'll stop now.