the end to the olympic break

as the canadian men's hockey team takes gold on sunday, the streets of vancouver turns mad. maple leaves everywhere: on cars, flags, peoples' cheeks. everybody screams, shouts, cheers, sings "oh canada", laughs. the city, tfu, the entire country is in a state of euphoria. and i bet it will remain so for couple of more days, weeks perhaps. the canadians have a reason to be proud of. team canada won 14 gold medals! nobody has ever gotten so many during the winter olympic games.. if they counted the medals the right way, they'd be leading the medal table. in totals they only sit third, behind usa and germany. poland did exceptionally well this olympics too. with 6 medals in total, we almost doubled our total medal count. and, importantly, justyna kowalczyk won the second gold ever. great stuff. anyhow, today i am already back in school and it is weird not to have the olympics going on anymore. but i am more sad that the break, not the olympics is over. now, i will need to make a serious stretch to pull this semester together, score som decent grades and keep the scholarship. this means only one thing: work, work, work. and that'd be mostly working with my brain (and fingers). but on the bright side of things, i am keeping up with my marathon training program and i am very much hoping to complete the run on may 2nd. these are the two priorities for the coming month: school and training. not too bad, eh?