Hello again and hope everyone is enjoying the beginning of spring as much as I am. Its amazing how the weather affects my mood. Mainly, waking up for work and the sun is already rising always puts a little more pep in my step. It has been sunny and decently warm. Warm as in, if I do wash, it is able to dry in one day. Also, it has been good to leave the house for no reason at all and just stroll around or do some outside work. Nothing too crazy or exciting to report, however on Wednesday my host mom and I did alot of work in our yard to get ready for spring.
It all started pretty slowly, but quickly caught on like a snowball. Usually, I have things to do related to work on Wednesdays, but nothing to overly important or pressing. Thus being said, I was able to clear my regularly scheduled plans to lend a hand. We started by trimming the grape vines and clearing out the dead vines. Cutting them even shorter and putting them into a bag for a neighbor to burn for heat in her soba (a wood/coal burning stove for heat). After a wine break, my mom layed down the serious work plans for the day. This included moving dirt from out front garden into the back yard to level out the yard to plant grass. This proved to be a little more involved than I thought. We borrowed a wheel barrow from a neighbor which proved to be my saving grace. I would dig dirt from the front, wheel it around back, dump it, while my mom raked it level. This took up the majority of the day and a few more wine breaks were in order. After about 20-30 loads, we were finally covered. By now its getting late afternoon and we decide to put the seed down, water it, then plant some onions, radishes, and carrots for the summer. Basically it was like real live Farmville, and if my calculations are correct in 2 days I should have a few thousand gold coins. But all in all, we worked from about 10 am to 6 pm and I was sore for the next few days, but my mom was so excited that we got it all done. I earned my dinner.
In other news, my weekly shower total has improved 100% from 1 a week to 2. But, due to an unexpected turn of events, it currently stands at 0 because our water/house heating system doesnt turn on. The matienence phone call will be delivered tomorrow and hope they fix it. I had to put water on the stove for a bit in order to have warm water to shave today.
Our trip to Brasov is already this weekend and I am getting excited. Looking forward to getting away for a bit and see some cool castles and new things. Mainly Draculas Castle (bwahh), we wil be there for 5 or 6 days starting Friday night. So the next post will be more eventful, so stay tuned. Love and miss you all.
PS- I shaved my beard
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