giddiness

I've been contemplating and trying to plan a study abroad experience for the last, oh say, 5 years or so. And tonight is the first time it hit me that this is actually real. I'm leaving in 3 days for a different country. On a different continent. For 4 months. Essentially by myself. I'm no longer just talking about what I'd like to do. I'm leaving and I'm doing it.

My processing of this fact may have been sped up by reading my friends' blogs who are already starting their own adventures. (And thanks for the solitary picture, Sara..that was epic.)

And the fact that today I received information about the apartment I'll be staying in. It's in the heart of downtown, in the Microcentro, about a block away from Calle Florida. Calle Florida is a huge pedestrian street that's supposed to have some of the best people watching in the city, which is right up my alley. My apartment looks pretty nondescript, but nice. I am most intrigued by the promise of breakfast delivered to my room every morning.
Home Sweet Home?

If it's possible to be in a tizzy, I am in one right now.

You will not regret clicking on this.

Calle Florida.
Glad to see the McDonald's golden arches in the distance.
I was super concerned about that.