Bess W

i love the smell of fresh out of the dryer sheets.  I got home from work today, and my mother had cleaned my room and washed my sheets.  best mom ever. 

 I'm starting to get ready for my trip to Australia. 

Step One:  Get excited.  I know I should be.  I know it should be easy.  I shouldn't have to force myself to get excited about this.  But, its hard.  I'm nervous.  Plus, perhaps if I'm not completely thrilled about going, if i get there and it is unbelievable, then it will just be twice as good.  Or something.  

Step Two:  Read.  My mom bought me a nice travel book for chrismas, but I read through that pretty quickly.  (Fun Fact, f.f. if you will, One out of every three people who live in Australia will get skin cancer.  eek.)  But I would like to know more.  I feel as though there is a serious stereotype of American students who study abroad in Australia.  They drink, they surf, they lay on the beach, and go to class if it is convenient.  This is clearly represented through the facebook groups that have been created for Australian study abroad students.  "I wish i remembered my semester abroad!!"  "Gosh, I drank too much!"  "lakjsdf  I'm drunk and in australia alskdjfa"  etc.   Those aren't the exact titles, but close enough.  The point is, I want to travel.  I want to see things other than the bars and the beaches.  I just hope I can find people that will join me.

Step Three:  Save money.  I'm bad at this.  I'm horrible at budgeting.  So instead of trying to budget my money, I'm simply not spending it.  Well, trying not too.  Which might be difficult tomorrow night, what with all the flowing champagne and all...

speaking of which, what is everyone doing tomorrow night?  

well, I love you all.  farewell.