Almost done! Ah!

I am so close to being done, it is unreal. This week is all about the ISP paper (I just finished my last observation session at Vesmirna) so I am currently writing this blog update as a way of procrastinating. But really, I'm in fine shape--I have a rough draft written and although there is quite a lot of work still to be done, I have the next 2 full days to do it.

So highlights from the past week:
-Wednesday I felt a little sick, so I took the day off and hung out with my host family. I also made an "Utterly Deadly Southern Pecan Pie" for Thanksgiving the next day (entirely from scratch).
-Thursday was Thanksgiving, but it didn't really feel like it at all until that evening. One of my friends came over in the morning to meet my host family and then we made a pumpkin cheesecake and apple crisp to bring to the party that night.
-The party was fun--it definitely tasted like Thanksgiving, which is very important, but I think the Czechs outnumbered the Americans at my professor's house, so that was a little awkward.
-Friday was another day of ISP work--an interview and observing at Vesmirna.
-On Saturday my friend and I went to Rehlovice, which was where we went in our third week for the regional stay. Our host there had a fund-raising brunch that she invited us to, so that was a very interesting experience...lots of people we didn't know, but there were a few who we did know who we talked to, which was good.
-On Sunday my friends and I went to the home of one of the families who we went to the woods with a couple weekends ago. We played Settlers of Catan--a board game I'd played a couple time is the States--with them and their kids and ate delicious snacks, and just had a really great time (eventhough I lost miserably at Settlers).
-The past two days have seriously been just working at Vesmirna and writing my paper, so nothing exciting.

So I should probably get started working so I can finish this ISP. I have really really enjoyed this whole research experience and really feel that it has been invaluable, and hopefully even influential on my possible career choice. But we'll see!

I have a week and a half left on this program, then I leave for Munich on the 14th for a couple of days, before flying all day on the 18th back to Austin. I'm excited to get back for some things, like Christmas, but I will definitely really miss this place.