Turkey Day (July 28)

Today was Turkey Day!

We only had one day between Bulgaria and Turkey, so we didn’t have all of our classes. We just had Global Studies IN THE MORNING—stupid decision, if you ask me! We were all exhausted from Bulgaria the last 4 days and many of us were sick. If we only have one class, is it too much to ask for a single day to sleep in a little? Apparently. It was impossible for me to wake up for it in the morning- I didn’t feel good and I was so exhausted. So, I didn’t go. My day started at lunch.

With all the Alzheimer’s discussion we’ve had in psychology lately, AND with how I have noticed my body changing a wee bit (maybe from all that Italian food?), AND with how lousy I feel from not working out…I decided it was time to suck it up and start going to the gym. Michelle and I suited up after lunch and hit the gym- elliptical and StairMaster, along with P90X Ab Ribber X. :) The StairMaster was a first for me. I’ve never used one and have always been a little afraid of them- they look so hard! But, it was the only machine open so we did it. I climbed 100 flights of stairs! I was proud of myself. :) I THOUGH about doing real stairs…DAD…but then realized I might get a few odd looks from running up and down stairs. Hey, at least I wasn’t doing it at a soccer game (Dad)! :)

I jumped in the shower to rinse off, then joined my golden tanning friends on the deck—in the shade. :) I decided to go to the medical center for my …skin things… I don’t know if they’re bites or plant poison from running through the sunflower fields. But that fact that I had weird bumps on my skin wasn’t very surprising. Anyway, I went to the medical clinic when it opened and got this scrub for them- before I shower, I have to scrub the life out of these bumps, and even scrub so hard to pop them and keep scrubbing until they’re raw. Sounds fun, huh? Now that I’ve shot your appetite, let me move on to dinner.

Dinner itself wasn’t memorable, but we (as always) stayed there for two hours chit chatting. Meals are when we spend our main quality time together! Today’s topic of conversation was first kisses—oh, there were some funny ones!