short personal update

Sorry I haven’t been posting recently. I’ve been feeling a bit down; one part homesick and two parts stressed at what’s going to happen after this internship ends.

As of now, I still don’t know if I would be able to stay here for another year. I would really love to keep my job, since it’s work that I’m interested in, can learn a ton from, and it’s in Tanzania! But it will all depend if we get funding from one of the embassies that we applied to. Basically, if we do get the funding, there will be a large chance that I can stay with Sustainable Cities International (we changed our name) for another year. The announcement deadline was supposed to be in December… and then it was pushed to January. As with a lot of things here, deadlines pushed a few months late are nothing to be surprised over. Although it really doesn’t help my anxiety. And as per normal Tiffany behaviour, whenever I’m anxious or stressed, it’s hard for me to focus on work (or anything else for that matter). But my concentration is coming back, so I’m happy.

But maybe because of the anxiety, I’ve been (again) in addicted to dramas mode. Except this time it’s Korean dramas, not Japanese. Although watching Japanese ones would help me keep up my Japanese (goodness I haven’t said or read anything in Japanese for so long), Korean dramas are too awesome! I also use the excuse that I can study (simplified) Chinese with the subtitles :) and I’m picking up really random Korean words and somehow figuring out some basic grammar structure. Seriously, I almost wished I was learning Korean. And Swahili.

Anyways. More later.