| | Update: J'ai mon passport! (translation: I have my passport!) Obtained a couple Sundays ago, and is now in a secure area. Some people think it's funny to joke about puppies eating it up...others, comme moi (like me) don't find it quite as entertaining. Next mission: Visa. We're leaving on Saturday to arrive in Chicago early Sunday. Visa mission is being tackled Monday then home. I need it to go smoothly....
The other day I was walking to work and there was a mom and a little girl, maybe four, behind me...
"I hope it's my birthday today" - little girl
"It's not. But don't worry, I'll tell you when it is okay?"
(this comment by the way made me smile all day. Still does.)
My creative writing teacher talked to us one day about how people tend to overuse the word "hope" and "hopeful" and its correct uses. Mary Grimm, I love you, but if that isn't the correct use of hope, then I'm not really sure what is.
This is how I feel everyday...
"I hope I'm leaving today!" Excited, for one split second that today might be the day. The end of work, the end of being tired, sitting on a plane thinking about all that is to come...
and then I realize that today is not the day. Not yet.
I'm starting to get excited...and nervous too-like "Oh shit-I'm actually going to a country where I can't walk into every single place and speak English..." I know that a lot of people speak English in Europe but this is not the point of "studying" abroad. Hasn't truly hit me that I'm going yet. It's not real.
24 days...
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