I'm sitting on my floor in Blue Bell amongst random piles of shit - my old Italian text book, headbands, Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros, sunglasses, earrings. It's all waiting to get sorted and packed into my various bags (so far I've kept my packing fairly minimal - I'm pretty proud of myself). There's still so much to do! I need to visit Aunt Sally, and finish my letter to Tim, and pack my toiletries, and pick out what movies I want to bring for the plane and get my watch fixed and maybe eat/sleep/drink. All that good stuff.
Instead I'm sitting here writing. I was on the phone with Naomi Barsky (a friend of my mother's) earlier today and she told me to make sure I kept a journal so that "25 years from now you can look back at this and smile." Here's a picture of the journal I'm bringing:
Lisa gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The inside cover reads:
"I wish you inspiration in your next journey and that these pages become filled with the jewels of your heart and mind."
Gee, me too.
Back to the main point: I'm hoping to not only write in my personal journal, but update this blog around twice a week and post to my flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mollygoestoitaly/) and youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/mollygoestoitaly) accounts. Also, I'm available to talk to on skype at human_trampoline so if you see me on (probably around 2 or 3 EST) please feel free to call! I need to figure out a cheaper alternative for the phone situation - right now it's basically an emergency only plan.
So the general plan for tomorrow is
01. Wake up.
02. Visit Aunt Sally.
03. Do various last-minute errands.
04. Get on an airplane.
05. Land in Rome.
And from there - who knows? I'm getting picked up by Arcadia people at 8AM Italian time so I get to spend the day in Rome doing some orientation things! Hopefully I'll get some time to explore on my own, too. I'll also need to do things like a) get money out and b) figure out my phone. Busy, busy day planned.
I guess I should quit while I'm ahead here. It's now T-minus 16 hours to takeoff and I need need need to sleep!
I love you all.
Andiamo!
Hey Girl. What a beautiful journal! Thank you so much for the comment that you left me - it means a lot to me. You must be pretty excited about going to Italy. My buddy from work went with his wife and he just loved it. I would love to go to someday. Have many great adventures while you are there. I'm sure it's going to give you a fresh new outlook on life :)
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