I Could Say I'm Done with School....

Jun 06, 2008 14:40

....but the study abroad kinda nixes that. Still.

I'M DONE WITH CLASSES!!! *realizes she only has a year left and deflates a little*

Now all I have left is a 5-8 page paper based on the subject of Chaucer that can be about pretty much anything due on Monday and a final exam for my Planets class on Wednesday. I'll probably spend Saturday and Sunday writing the paper, with a break on Sunday to pack up stuff/hang out with my family when they come here to do a mini-move-out. I'd say it'll be easy-peasy, but I know I won't be getting a lot of sleep Sunday night/Monday morning writing the paper. *sigh*

11 Days until I leave for Rome, bright and early (tooooooo early...) the 17th. *flails* I keep getting caught between being psyched for it and being completely overwhelmed/terrified of it. I think the excitement is pretty self-explanatory. But...I'm going to a foreign country with only Spanish (I doubt Korean is going to help me out there) under my belt. I've heard that there are people who speak English, but...it's still frightening. I think I'd feel a lot better about studying abroad if I were going to a country where English (American or British English) was the predominant language spoken, or even if I were studying that language, because then I have a grasp for it. Italian...not so much. Now that I've finished Korean, though, I can focus studying the new language, so maybe I'm just freaking out for no reason. *hopes*

Plus, this is the first time I've ever been truly away from my family/home. Sure, yes, I'm mostly on my own up in Seattle, but my family's a phone call and 1 1/2 hours of driving away. But now I'm seriously on my own. And I know, I know, I should be ready to be independent and not hold onto my mommy's apron-strings and etc. etc. etc., but the fact is... I'm going to be on my own without my usual support group. No me gusta! 싫습니다! Non mi piace! *sigh*

It turns out someone already took Via Appia for their project (I guess I can hope that they're a Doctor Who fan...) so I took Temple of Vesta. And, sadly, I read and wrote the name wrong so for a while I thought I was researching "Temple of Vestia." Not even Wikipedia redirected me, and I've put some really wrong spellings in that search bar. And I think I emailed my prof saying I would take the Temple of Vestia. *headdesk* ETA: Aah, now, see, my misspelling is okay! Because the only reason I wrote Vestia is because that's how my prof wrote it. *feels better about her English skills*

Yesterday I was walking along back to my dorm, and I see this gray feline-body walking toward me through the bushes. There's usually a cat around there, and though the cat I normally see is brownish in color, I thought, "Oh, cute, another kitty!"

Um. Nope. 'Twas a racoon the size of an oversized house cat. Out in daylight (er, well, 2 o'clock-ish; Seattle/Western Washington hasn't gotten the memo that it's June already).

Off to play...way too many hours of FFX. Way too many.

"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be." Jonathan Harker --Dracula by Bram Stoker

books, rome, ffx

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