Odlet

(Translation: Departure)

This is most likely my last post stateside, so I thought I'd just give you a bit of an update on my plans. I leave tonight at 9:30pm from Logan, with two SIGNIFICANTLY sub-50lb. bags. Yes, under fifty, not over. I consider this a personal victory. Plus, the Vera duffel I had been planning to carry on stuffed full of clothes is actually folded flat in my suitcase. I have a practically empty backpack and large purse as my carry-ons. I'm a little bit shocked. Anyway, I leave tonight and arrive in London at 8:30am Wednesday (their time) where I will meet all of the other students in my program. I'll spend Wednesday and Thursday in London with them before we fly to Munich Friday morning. Saturday morning I will finally board a bus to Prague!

Before I go any further I want to take a minute to thank every single one of you for the cards, gifts, and wishes. Thanks for taking the time to see me before I left, and thanks for wishing me a great trip. It meant a lot to me to hear from all of you, and it makes it much harder to move almost 4,ooo miles away. I'll miss you all!

Anyway, despite the difficulties with saying bye, I am ready to go. I want a new adventure, and I can't wait to wake up somewhere where I don't know every street, can't speak the language, and probably won't like 90% of the food (not that I won't try it). There's something I love about the uncertainty of it all, and the challenge that it poses.

Hopefully I'll have wifi in my hotel so that I can put up a short post tomorrow to let you know that I successfully completed the first leg of the journey!

And now to bed so that I can conquer the jet lag just like I conquered my suitcases...