4/28/2015
At about 6:30pm on a Tuesday, seemingly like any other, here I am sitting in the bus station in Dunajska Streda (another town about a 1 & 1/2 - 2 hour bus ride away from Bratislava where I originally got on my bus) because I fell asleep on the bus and missed by stop at Štvrtok na Ostrove.
I didn't expect this to happen honestly (well I expected it to happen at least once before I left, but I just didn't expect it to happen today). And the funny this is that I'm not even the least bit worried. I feel completely calm and at ease. I know that my next bus will come around 7:30 (and will take 55 minutes to get back to Štvrtok na Ostrove), and if worse comes to worst then I can just call my host parents to come pick me up. Although I don't even want to worry them about this.
It feels nice that I could easily shrug and laugh of this situation. I made a New Year's resolution to not worry about the little things and be open to new experiences. I guess I really knew what life could possibly throw at me-
"Learn to say 'fuck it' when things don't go as planned... be open to new experiences... let life take you places, don't be scared of the unknown or the unexpected or the unplanned."
Life will always be a journey. you can either be afraid of it and try to fight it, or you can sit back and enjoy the ride.
-E.
*After returning home at 8:25pm from my 4 hour adventure of being lost*
Thoughts-
It was so wonderful to finally make it home. All day the weather had just gotten progressively worse - rainy, windy, and cold. Thank god I brought my leggings with me and put them on under my shorts just before I left school. And my big black hat served pretty well as a replacement umbrella.
For some reason I had gone into a mental adrenaline rush that significantly improved my Slovak for the time being while I was lost in order for me to communicate with several different people to figure out how to get home.
When I got on the bus, I had to make a stern conscious decision to make sure that I didn't fall asleep again, which sounds funny but is actually very difficult for me because I fall asleep EVERYWHERE - ESPECIALLY in moving vehicles. But I ended up just fine and finally reached home, where I went inside, changed into my warm pj's, went to the bathroom (because I had to pee that WHOLE time), and went down to the kitchen for some delicious kapusnice s knedla (cabbage soup with this special kind of bread called knedla).
Needless to say, it was an unexpected adventure that taught me that I can handle myself in stressful situations and find my way out of them as long as I just stay calm. Another good learning experience to add to the list.
-E.
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