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So you know how I said I wasn't going to think about it. Well I'm thinking about it the whole time! Like literally. Where am I going to go? What am I going to do? What are the classes going to be like? Are they going to be small? Is the schedule going to be intense, like 8am classes all week! EEEK yeh no I really don't want that. I want to enjoy my time abroad! Not wake up early. Ain't nobody got time for dat! I imagine what I will see, where I am going to go to buy groceries. What kind of sheets I want to buy when I get there. There are so many things I am thinking about. Small stuff and large stuff.

It's getting close and mom doesn't want to let me go. I am going up to Bellingham to visit my bestest friend Lexie and she said, " I don't want you to be gone, when I could be spending time with you!" I was like, "Mom you're going away for the weekend for your anniversary!" (btw it's my parents 26th year anniversary) So long story short I'm going to Bellingham this week and then packing NEXT week to leave on the 14th. If anyone wants to get together before then I would love to hang! And let me know what you want me to get you from the Emerald Island! (Under €3, More for the people I like :D)

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Organizing

Well tonight, I organize. I just have random junk laying all over the place in "my room". I need to start packing stuff next week and get together what I am taking and what I am not. Then the week before I leave I will probably cut all that in half. What I was told is lay everything out and then cut half of your stuff and double your money budget! :D I feel like I won't be able to afford it but I will try too take as much money as possible!

While I was organizing I found the luggage tag that I ordered a couple months ago. It made me smile! So I filled it out and put it on Nauti!

BATMAN MINION CARL

Got a Room

I feel like a total failure. I tell myself I am going to do something and then turn around and absolutely forget and never do it! I told myself that I was going to write a blog and keep that blog, but here I am weeks, nay, Months later finally writing again. Sheesh.

Well, the last time I wrote I was packing to leave Montana. That was an event. First my mom flies in and we catch up and celebrate my birthday. Then we decide that I might need a storage unit to put all my stuff in. So we call around and finally find one, and it was the last one!

We probably spend more time on campus talking to the wonderful ladies in the financial aid office than actually packing. Just FYI, study abroad is not cheap. There are many choices in life, and I made the choice to go into maaaando debt AND probably have the greatest experience of my life in Ireland. I think I can live with that decision. That is what's important.

The day mom and I flew back to Washington was one of the most stressful days I have ever had in Montana, and I did a year in Architecture! Which is saying something. On the other hand, I did it all to myself. I got worried and stressed over the tiniest of details. I tried to formulate our schedule down to the millisecond and all for nothing! We ended up being early for the flight. Got in a game of Bananagrams at the gate! I freaked myself out and got an unset stomach just from all the excitement and stress of moving. Jeeze just picture me doing it in the big times, like after I'm married with 2.5 kids and a dog.

So we got home alright. Not much turbulence or traffic on the drive home from Sea-Tac. I'm treating my time in washington like what it really is for me. A Vacation. I'm sleeping in til the afternoon, I'm saying up til all hours of the morning and I'm eating what ever is left on the stove. Ahhhhhhh so nice to be on vaca! I went to a few dr's, one to make sure I can go overseas, one to put new spikes on my teeth for my braces, and one to make sure I can see. I have seen a few friends since I have been here. But alas everyone is growing up and going off to school themselves.

Last night I got my room assignment all figured out. I decided I didn't want to pay $3000+ for a room of my own with an en-suite bath, so I downgraded to a $1500+ shared room. It is in an apartment with 4 rooms, 1 shared and 3 singles, and 2 shared baths, kitchen and living space. I'm getting more and more excited about the trip. I'm trying not to think about it that often because my stomach will start hurting and I'll get all stressed... It is getting closer!!

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