All for Moi.

Yeah, I've realized that this blog is completely for me. I'm so awful at remembering things and I misplace written notes daily...so this is my record.

I found out when I'm going to get to travel: the 2010-2011 school year. I'll be a junior.

If all goes well, I'll save up and fly to London. I'd go in the fall semester because it would offer more opportunities for my major. I can take a lot of Communications courses (PHO 581 & COM 527 specifically, as well as anthropology and public relations.) 

I'll get a taste of what I crave!

Then, at the end of the semester, I'll spend Christmas vacation with Julie in South Africa. I'd be home by mid-January. (This is if I don't go visit her sooner, in that case I'd likely be home in December.)

Although this means I won't do a study abroad in Japan, I can still do a year teaching ESL in 2012-2013.

By January 2014, I'll have moved to London.

Five years. Five years from now. I'll be 23 years old. 

That seems so old to me! I mean, it's a great age (awful number if you recall how crazy it makes me), but I feel like from 18 to 23 is such a crucial and crazy amount of time and life!

Am I crazy? Well, yes, but excited and obsessed would be a better observation. I'd rather just move to London now and go to school there, but that won't happen. I'm sitting here, planning everything from finances and travel expenses to what clubs and shops I want to visit. And I won't be in London for another 2 1/2 years. SO LONG! It's worth the wait...but right now I feel like being as impatient as a five year old child. And as obsessed as a pre-teen girl is with a pretty boy. Oh well.

So...seeing as I get free tuition...my estimated cost of travel/programs/living/expenses is:

$20,000. 

And I'm awful at saving money. Though I might take out a loan, I'd rather save up. So... lifeguarding, tutoring, minimum-wage jobs and cutting back on my shopping. Rough.