Hit Me!

I think it may have just sunk in that I'm leaving in less than a week. I woke up this morning from a dream about packing to thoughts about everything I need to do this week before I leave, and that list isn't short.

My mom now wants me to pack everything in my room into boxes. My brother is coming to stay at the house when my parents do their trip to New Zealand And Australia in March. The plan is he'll stay in my room which I suppose is fair seeing as it was his until he moved out ~10 years ago, and I took it over... I guess this is just one more thing to add to that list!

I'm both nervous and excited about leaving. As i suppose you always are before a trip, and the prospect of going back to school isn't helping. Taking classes in a new country is a bit daunting because I can do all I can before I got, but I don't know for sure that the level of course work is the same... Oh well, I guess I'll see when I get there!

Numero uno

So, my mom wanted me to make a blog for my trip to New Zealand like I did for my volunteer trip to Lesotho, Africa. I haven't decided if I'm going to give her the link yet, but here we go; I've started it! Besides, I got a Kickass address for this!

Most of you know (or you, the lonely one reading this may know) that I'm not a writer, I get bored sitting at the comp typing for too long, and I have no intention of texting my entries this time (unless I get a new phone where T9 is not required, that sucked!), so we'll see how much actually gets written...

There is a back story for this trip. Since I enrolled at UBC I've wanted to do an exchange. Engineering did all it could to make actually doing it a bitch, but eventually I decided that adding another year (to the already added year from coop) to my degree was worth it. Yup, that's right folks! 6 years its going to take me to graduate. Most of my friends are starting their final year right now, and its making me kinda sad to still be in Calgary, working, and trying to save up enough moola to actually be able to afford the trip I'm absolutely stoked about! Years from now, the extra year won't matter, and I'm sure I'll get cool peeps to work with when I finally go through and do my Capstone project, but right now, it feels kinda lonely.

...and I'm bored, and there is food on the table...
Peace!