the transition has begun

I've begun to muddle through this mess of our room to separate my things....and boy is it fun!  Hope you can note the hint of sarcasm there.

I've had to make room in my luggage for gifts and new clothes, so I'm deciding what exactly I can leave here and what I can't live without.  School bag from 2005, sorry, you're out.  I will miss your green courdoroy and you have served me well.  Mom's tupperware? Probable out (sorry mom!)  300 Forint skirt?  You're nice, but not that nice, and you fit me a little weird.  Hiking boots--I REALLY need you, but why must you be so bulky?  Ugh. Get in the suitcase.  Jorts?  I will wear you until next Thursday, but then you ugly raggy little things are out of my life! 

So that's this morning.....Conversing with my clothes.  Picnicing this afternoon in the park (how I will miss this--Just me, my ipod, a blanket, icecream coffee, my drawing pad, my novel and my Hungarian notes).

Yesterday was a sad goodbye at school.  My colleagues have been really great and my students proved me wrong:  I never thought I could teach high school and enjoy it.  Or get as attached to my older students as I did...I will really miss my school and everyone in it.  Luckily, there's facebook, and although I originally told them we couldn't be friends on facebook...now that I'm leaving, (slash now that they are no longer my "students") I changed my mind.  I am actively interested in where they will go to college and what they will do with their lives!  And unlike my preschoolers I don't need to wait 13 years to find out!  Soooo I'm about to get like 200 teenaged "new friends."  Oy.



Soon I have to leave my cute little out-of-a-story-book-looking city....

...Thank goodness I get to come home to the Hamptons, crabs, outdoor movie nights, and the beach.  Admittedly, I do miss these things, and I'm not sure what summer would be without them.