We’ve been here almost a full week. This weekend we’re planning on resting and relaxing. It’s been quite the journey so far. Arriving was a big one – and just all the emotions that go along with it. It’s not easy trying to learn a new culture and be yourself. My team has to learn how to function together and how to love each other. This is hard. Way harder than it sounds. I’m learning a lot about myself through this. I’m being stretched and it’s quite painful. Next week we’ll probably go to Bratislava to do our briefing, I’m looking forward to this, because I really love Bratislava. I’m still doing the picture every day thing, and I’m liking it. It helps me to be creative. Sometime soon, I’ll go around and take pictures of the city, there are so many great things to take pictures of, I can’t keep up. It’s gotta cool down some first, though. Once that happens I’ll wonder around some more, for now its too hard to tolerate the heat, much less take pictures.

We did go to word art (the name of my language school) yesterday to fill out 1.5 million forms for our visas and registration for language school. It was really overwhelming.