Come tomorrow I'll be on my way...OUT OF HERE!
I'm busy packing but I wanted to take a minute to post. This will be my last entry in America for quite some time...
I spent part of the day yesterday looking at my yearbooks from high school and remembering who I used to be. I also was reading some of the things people wrote to me...I found something that made me cry. A guy I graduated with named Tyler wrote this, "Mandy: I never said anything to you about it, but I wanted you to know that you are one of my favorite people from high school..." That absolutely made my day all over again. It was so nice to read.
I'm sort of wigging out about what all to take. Six months is a long time to pack for...especially when you have no clue what you'll be getting into. One thing is for certain...I AM taking my Bible. If I could only take one thing, that would be it.
So, for now, peace out from America. Time to leave the land of the free and cross the pond. Hugs to all.
(If my plane crashes and I die, I give Colby the rights to publish my poetry.)

Band to check out...
If you want some great tunes to start the semester off with check out the BENJAMIN GATE. They're my new favorite band. It's a bunch of boys and a chick singer who has this amazing tonality to her voice...check them out. Oh yeah...just a few days left. I'm stoked! Time to start packing!
Love you guys!

Liquid
It's 2:15 AM and I just rolled in from Liquid...St. Louis' #1 club for anything Nelly has ever written. Holy shit they play a lot of Nelly. I guess b/c he's the "hometown hero" here. I'm staying with Jackie tonight at her apartment here at St. L University. We went out for dinner earlier and then decided to make a night of it dancing. My feet are killing me and her knees have given out. We're two very tired little girls.
So I leave in less than a week. Yeah. I'm starting to think about all my friends (and a few ppl in particular ;) piling back in to the Lex and it makes me sad in some sick way that I won't be there. I have the best damn roommates in the world and I'm already missing them. I still feel like this is what I need to do. My entire life and all my relationships have been leading up to this point. It's time for the American Invasion to begin.
If anyone out there still reads this account of the mindless meanderings of a Mandy, and you have a decent CD collection, go put in the Queens of the Stone Age and listen to "No One Knows." That should give you some idea of how I'm feeling right now.
Sweet dreams, little sheep. Baaaa....