Two Days

The countdown until I board that plane continues and while my excitement about landing in Vienna is growing exponentially I'm currently more enthusiastic about this blog. Yeah, I'm going to freaking Austria for four months but I'm preoccupied with something that only exists virtually. In a few weeks I'll probably be standing atop some snow-capped mountain peak but I'll be too busy scribbling away in some tiny little notepad to even notice.

For those of you who don't know, writing was essentially my life in high school. I was even going to major in English and make writing a career. However, I then discovered that crazy thing called Science and now as a nursing major my writing has been postponed indefinitely. That is, until now. So, maybe my excitement over some blog that doesn't actually exists except as a bunch 1's and 0's, which I might as well mention can be deleted with the mere press of a button, isn't quite so pathetic. Because, see, this whole writing gig is kinda my childhood dream. So now I've just gone from pathetic to sentimental.

Three Days

So, three days until I board my flight to Vienna, Austria and begin a new semester . . . practically on the other side of the world. That's pretty exciting. However, there are a few things left that need to be done before I go. There are a few financial things I need to take care of, I need to buy a new shaver so my face doesn't look like Papa Smurf after the first month, and I need to get a haircut for similar reasons, but most importantly I need to find my extra crunchy peanut butter. Because I am not leaving this continent until I have my Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter!

This only worked in Steubenville because there was nothing worth seeing

I have a lot to look forward to this semester: traversing across Europe by train, gracing the local pub with my presence and being able to legally drink, taking theology, philosophy, and history classes in a renovated medieval monastery, and seeing old friends after a long summer apart. It should be one long four month experience to remember forever - and hence this blog, to document the whole adventure for posterity's sake.