{"id":3879,"date":"2012-08-30T20:50:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T04:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2012-08-30T20:50:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T04:50:56","slug":"the-final-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/2012\/08\/30\/the-final-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Final Countdown.<\/p>\n

Seven days.\u00a0 Seven days until I board a plane in SeaTac and fly to Deutschland.\u00a0 People keep asking me if I am excited.\u00a0 Well, duh.\u00a0 Of course I am!\u00a0 Moving to a foreign country for a year isn’t exactly something done on a whim (at least, not by most people).\u00a0 The planning and preparation that comes beforehand?\u00a0 Got it covered.\u00a0 I am Queen of Planning and Organizing.\u00a0 The actual packing, boarding the plane, and leaving?\u00a0 The uprooting of everything?\u00a0 That’s a little more difficult.\u00a0 People keep asking me if I am nervous.\u00a0 Well, duh.\u00a0 As titillated as I am, I am also just as trepidatious.\u00a0 It’s a dizzying mixture of “Ohmigod, I’m moving to Germany<\/em>!!!!” and “Ohmigod.\u00a0 I’m moving<\/em> to Germany.”<\/p>\n

I haven’t exactly<\/em> started packing, yet.\u00a0 I’ve spent the last two days going through my things, sorting them into three piles.\u00a0 Pile one:\u00a0 Stuff That I Cannot Possibly Live Without, Oh My Gosh No.\u00a0 Pile two:\u00a0 Why Do I Even Own This Sh*t?\u00a0 Pile 3:\u00a0 I Want This, But It Won’t Fit In My Suitcase; Therefore, Tell Boyfriend To Ship Later.\u00a0 (See?\u00a0 I told you I am organized.)\u00a0 Pile one is already distressingly large, considering that I’ve yet to put any clothes in it.\u00a0 Or shoes.\u00a0 I suppose there is only so much predicting one can do about what will be useful for a year abroad, but that pesky little (well, major) part of my personality that frets about such things is not convinced.\u00a0 Must. Plan.\u00a0 Must. Prepare!<\/p>\n

I haven’t figured out a good way to transition between thoughts in blog posts, yet.\u00a0 Whatever.\u00a0 Think of it as free-flowing, free thinking, freedom to write whatever I want!\u00a0 I just learned my Greifswald address today.\u00a0 It’s little things like that which make this all feel more real.\u00a0 Learning my address.\u00a0 Picking up my luggage (the handles needed to be repaired).\u00a0 Buying Euros from my bank.\u00a0 That’s when I realize:\u00a0 this is actually happening<\/em>.\u00a0 And I am so freaking excited, as excited as I imagine Neil Patrick Harris was when he got to ride a unicorn.<\/p>\n

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The Final Countdown. Seven days.\u00a0 Seven days until I board a plane in SeaTac and fly to Deutschland.\u00a0 People keep asking me if I am excited.\u00a0 Well, duh.\u00a0 Of course I am!\u00a0 Moving to a foreign country for a year … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kat-schmidt-12-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}