one more time...
It looks like I'm going to Spain as well. Kate is really planning this trip out well! I can't wait to get all my work here turned in and be on my way. How cool will it be to see the leaning tower of Pisa? I'll get to see the canals of Venice, the Vatican in Rome...and tons more cool stuff. I'm really glad I'm traveling with Kate as well...she seems pretty hard core about seeing things like I am. I noticed that she was the only other person who went to Dublin who was out the door as early as I was to go see things...that takes dedication. We were in bed early every night and out the door in the morning...that's the way to do it!
I'm just sitting here in the computer lab waiting for my final Comedy lecture to start. This is my last lecture at UCLAN, and I'm not really sad about it. I feel like I've sort of half-assed my way through my work here because travel has taken precedence over everything else. I'm hoping to do a real bang-up job on my final papers and get some decent marks. I am continually surprised when I get my essays back and have good marks on them...I usually write them about an hour before they are due and just BS my way through them. My classmates get started on them weeks in advance and spend all this time researching and whatnot. I guess I'm just drawing on the knowledge I've gotten from all the classes I've had in High School, PCC, and UK. I'm always shocked at how little people here care about history, current events, or womens issues. I guess there are students, and there are scholars. Who knows.
I'm starting to think that I'll be dreading the trip home. I know I'll cry...I've made so many friends here that I know I'll never see again. I don't plan on coming back this way for quite some time, if ever. It's really hard for me to let people go because I get really attached. I'm so attached, as a matter of fact, to Erin, Rach, and Val that no matter what I won't EVER let them go. I just have to keep telling myself that friends come into my life...most for a short time and some for life...there comes a point you have to just take each day as it comes. To my girls back home in the US...I can't wait to see you and give you all bear hugs...I've missed you so! I promise not to bore you with my stories, I'd just want to be in your company for a while...just sit and drink coffee and be together like old times.