Yeah!

The last couple of nights I’ve kept forgetting to send a text message to Jo asking for her running plans this week. Freud?!?

Must be because I am kind of half in a training mood, half in a vacation mood and half in a “want to start work soon” mood. I guess it’s a bit hard from time to time to pull yourself together and do the less easy things when you don’t HAVE to. I definitely find it easy to get a bit lazy, but eventually my body always wants me to change into a healthier lifestyle – kind of amazing actually. If I don’t eat enough vegetables for a while my body starts to crave them (same goes for chocolate unfortunately…) and if I don’t exercise enough; same thing. I am very happy about that – it makes it so much easier to live the way I prefer!

So => today I ran the full 10 k’s!! I was kind of close the 2 first runs last week as well, but only went 8 + 7 on those. Which I am very happy with, but today it feels goooood :) And I did it with my training top inside out AND backwards. But, you know, it was 5.00 am when I got dressed… Don’t know if anybody noticed - hope not.

After breakfast I walked into town (another 8 km! Yeesss) to immigrations to start the work on my monthly extension of the visa. And, of course, they sent me right back home. But actually because I came one week too early this time, so that’s not too bad. Hope it works out smoothly next week instead.

Today I also had my first private lesson in Portuguese! It feels great to finally get started. I have been trying to learn on my own, but it is kind of hard. I’m still at the same level as 3 weeks ago; I can order food and ask the guarda to do my laundry and stuff like that but that’s a bit too far from where I want to be. But I’m sure Marcia will get me there in no time :)