This is my last blog post (or maybe next to last if I write a blog from the airport before we take off) in the United States.
The next blog will come to all my American friends and family from all the way across the Atlantic. That made me just realize this is my first trip across the Atlantic, first trip to another country (that border town in Mexico that we visited on spring break doesn't count; oh and don't tell my Dad that I went there), first trip to Europe, and so on and so on, you get the point.
I weighed my suitcase tonight, although it's only 95% packed, but it weighed 39.4 lbs. My goal was less than 40 lbs so I will have room to bring some olive oil back. I thought about shipping some things back, but we'll see how cost-efficient that will be.
I have a few last minute stressful things to take care of - mowing the grass once before I leave and those last minute packing things to get - but the stress is subsiding and I'm getting much more excited!
I found out on Saturday that I will have to do some homework while I'm over there because we are starting our July class session with pre-July readings. I'm taking my books with me and hope to get those things done in some of my free time. But, on the same note, I don't want to sit around with my nose in a book when I have all the excitement of Florence around me! I am hoping to get one assignment done before I leave, one in the airport in Chicago, and that leaves me with only one other one to do.
My whirlwind summer is beginning so quickly. My goal is to enjoy Italy as much as I possibly can while taking a lot of pictures and making a lot of memories (and keeping track of them here!)
Buon viaggio! (happy travels!)
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