Sickies are gone!

January is finally gone...and so are my sickies!!! Well, most of the sickies anyway. There is still a lingering cough and I'm not 100% sure that all of the Giardia is gone, but I'm doing much better and feel about back to normal. I wanna say "thanks" to all of my friends and family who have been writing to check up on me. Makes a girl feel pretty loved when people write to make sure that I'm still alive. :-)

Now that February is here it's dance repetition time! My dancers are getting their performance together and tonight will be my first night going to check it out and participate. Dimov, the dance teacher, tells me that I will have a small role in the beginning of their performance so I'll go tonight and find out what my part is. I hope it doesn't require any fancy foot work dancing because I'm probably one of the worst dancers out there. I'll find out tonight what I get to do! Oh, and I'll also get to wear a folk costume for the performances! Yay! That, to me, is the most exciting part...my very own Bulgarian Folk Costume!!!

The performance schedule is still in the working. But it looks like we'll get to perform for almost all of the schools in Carbon County, and have performances in both Helper and Price. I'm still working on setting something up in Salt Lake City. I'd like the dancers to be able to see a big city in the states, rather just stay in my rural area the entire time. I had hoped to set something up at my alma mater, the University of Utah, but they don't seem to be interested. :-( That makes me sad. When I was a student there I loved watching the different performances set up by the presenter's office. There would often be folk music groups or dancers out side the student building and I'd sit on the lawn and watch. I really wanted to bring my Bulgarian dancers to the U of U and share with the current students the coolness of Bulgarian Folk Dancing! Oh well, time to look somewhere else. There's still a month and a half to go so I'll figure something out in the big city.

Ok, so besides dancers related stuff all I can tell about is school and travel. The first semester is about over and I'll get a little break next Thursday to Sunday - an in-between semester break. I hadn't planned on going anywhere. Mostly I was planning on Melody coming here to visit. But I've been feeling a little restless lately - that may be due to the fact that I've been sick and haven't been able to go anywhere. So with this restlessness I've decided that I need to go...somewhere...anywhere. I was talking to John and I told him that I'd like to go to Prague for my little break and he said that he'd like to go there too. So now it's settled. I will meet John-John in Prague next week and we'll spend 4 days together roaming around the beautiful old city! Yay!!!!! I love these last-minute vacations! It will be nice to see John (who will be bringing me some Kraft Mac&Cheese that I've been craving lately...and not the powdered cheese kind either!) and it will be good to take a little break from school.

Oh yeah, Happy Groundhog Day!!! Anyone know if the groundhog has seen his shadow or not?