Seven Days And Too Much Stuff!!

First off I must apologize for this entry being a day late but like they say "better late than never." This is crazy. I leave in exactly one week for four months away from home and I'm completely relaxed! I feel like I should be getting at least a little nervous but no, there are no such feelings to be had. It will probably occur to me on the way to the airport. I usually don't fly much and the three times that I have I was traveling by myself or with school and for some reason the moment that reality hits me in the face always seems to be while sitting in traffic near Briley Parkway on the way to the Nashville airport. Oh well, seven days to reality then.

So the packing didn't quite go as well as I had hoped. I called my sister to get a little advice about how to pack for four months of fall and winter with only two bags. She said to pull everything I want to take out of my closet, make a pile, and then cut the pile in half and what's left is what goes...right. I think its good advice, really I do, but I don't think that my pile is going to be all that big, but we'll wait and see, I'm probably wrong. I didn't get very far into it before my parents got home from work and decided that we needed to take my dog to the vet. My dad was busy and couldn't take her so of course my mom and I went. Goodbye packing I'll catch up with you tomorrow. We get back from the vet about thirty minutes later and my parents decide to go out to dinner. We had a nice time and the food was good but I needed to be at home doing other things.

Tomorrow the packing continues. While digging through my closet today I began to wonder why I decided to study abroad and then I remembered, I love a good challenge and its six thousand miles away. One more down, six to go.