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Yay, it's official, I'll be out of the country for the first 2 weeks of June!
I just got my letter of acceptance from the Study Abroad office.
I will be studying at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland...a pretty cool place, it's been Poland's finest university since 1364. Most of my studying, however, will be done in the streets and towns.
I'll be walking the streets of Krakow and Warsaw, exploring castles and mines, hiking in the Carpathian mountains, and seeing Auschwitz, among many other things.
I'm excited as hell.
I don't know anyone who's going and I can speak and understand very little Polish, although I'm trying to teach myself as much as possible between now and then. That's sort of the most exciting things, that everything will be new and unknown to me, and I'll have to think on my feet and figure it all out by myself. I like that I don't know anyone else going because.. it means I'm unattached. I don't have to be influenced by anyone else, I'm not expected to stay with anyone, and I can go out on my own and explore however and wherever I want.
I feel like once I go to Poland, I'm not going to be content staying in one place for very long. I've never been anywhere remarkable, anywhere really different, anywhere on my own, that I couldn't get back from in a matter of hours. I already feel the wanderlust--I already know that seeing just one country isn't going to be enough.
Although part of me, the bitter, cynical, "don't-get-your-hopes-up" part of me is telling me not to think about this much, and not to get excited yet, not until I'm on the plane and I see the US disappearing behind me. I just keep thinking that some shit is going to come up and cancel the whole trip. Some dumbass politician, some epidemic, something is going to prevent me from leaving.
I just got my letter of acceptance from the Study Abroad office.
I will be studying at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland...a pretty cool place, it's been Poland's finest university since 1364. Most of my studying, however, will be done in the streets and towns.
I'll be walking the streets of Krakow and Warsaw, exploring castles and mines, hiking in the Carpathian mountains, and seeing Auschwitz, among many other things.
I'm excited as hell.
I don't know anyone who's going and I can speak and understand very little Polish, although I'm trying to teach myself as much as possible between now and then. That's sort of the most exciting things, that everything will be new and unknown to me, and I'll have to think on my feet and figure it all out by myself. I like that I don't know anyone else going because.. it means I'm unattached. I don't have to be influenced by anyone else, I'm not expected to stay with anyone, and I can go out on my own and explore however and wherever I want.
I feel like once I go to Poland, I'm not going to be content staying in one place for very long. I've never been anywhere remarkable, anywhere really different, anywhere on my own, that I couldn't get back from in a matter of hours. I already feel the wanderlust--I already know that seeing just one country isn't going to be enough.
Although part of me, the bitter, cynical, "don't-get-your-hopes-up" part of me is telling me not to think about this much, and not to get excited yet, not until I'm on the plane and I see the US disappearing behind me. I just keep thinking that some shit is going to come up and cancel the whole trip. Some dumbass politician, some epidemic, something is going to prevent me from leaving.