Its actually the 12th of March (only just!). Haha, i just got back from the best night out.
I just started writing after a two hour conversation with some friends over the internet. They were people from the Rugby World Cup. The girl who sang the Italian national anthem, Barbara, the French female singer, Almandine (as she says, like the little almond haha), and Dan from Australia, who sung the French National Anthem too. It was such an interesting and fantastic conversation. It is incredible how much your friends invigorate you. You can be feeling completely down (not that i really was) and your friends completely lift you up. It is the best feeling. To know that someone, wherever they are in the world, next to you, or thousands of miles away, when someone thinks about someone else, there is a connection between the two people. Sure, the internet and improved phones and email especially have made the world a much smaller place, but people still remain, and their feelings are still the most important thing in the world. I think what im trying to say is that although we are all separated by space, every one of us is linked by the way we feel personally and about others. When you care for someone, you think about them all the time, and presumeably, they think about you too, and you share something that brings those two people together. Its incredible to think that no matter how far away i go from home (i cant get much further away than i already am!) i will have someone thinking about me, and in a sense, i will never be away from home. I think this is the most comforting though. Its when a friend says, we miss you, or i love you, or anything really, you know your not entirely alone. The reason i bring this up, is because Barbie, the girl from Italian, was saying how much she missed everyone from the Rugby World Cup, and we came to the conclusion, that the four of us, in Italy, France Austria and Australia, were linked, and so she neednt feel as though we were away from her. However, it is even more comforting to know that im closer to a great friend, and will get to see her sometime this year. Although thoughts about someone can serve you for a while, there is nothing like meeting someone again!!!
I dont know, this is just a more or less random group of thoughts, but i thought (no pun intended!) id jot them down and take from them what you will. Maybe its just me justifying (or constructing) homesickness (you see im not really homesick yet which im not sure is good or bad!). I think what it comes down to in the end is that there is no a nicer feeling than lying in bed, all by yourself, at the end of the day, and thinking that there is someone out there who missed me, or thought about me today. And because of that, im not alone in my little Austrian city.
Paz