Another Adventure

Goodbye my little bed,
Goodbye my shaved legs,
Goodbye my personal bathroom,
I will see you soon.

Goodbye to my Dundee,
Goodbye to all my money,
Goodbye to the Scottish neeps,
I will be gone for three weeks.

Tomorrow I embark on an adventure that...well, something I've never done before. That seems to be my mantra this year. "I'm doing things I've never done before." Moving to Scotland. Living with people from all over the world. Hopping on a bus to London. Hopping on a plane to Ireland. Now I'm going on a three week tour of Europe. I remember being in Mrs. Felder's second grade class and learning how to spell Europe. Conor always bragged about it because he'd been before or his parents went or something, and he had some fancy eraser that he got from Germany or somewhere. He was always so proud because he could spell Europe perfectly every time. "It's like e-u-rope" he would tell me when he saw I spelled it Eroupe.I had all the right letters, I just couldn't ever remember the order...Now, not only can I spell it, but I'm actually in Europe. In addition to the UK and Ireland, I will be going to France, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Austria. How about them apples, Conor?

Just kidding :) I'm not petty and competitive like I used to be...

I'm extremely thankful for all the people I've met here. Friends to travel with, friends who open their homes to us, friends who write a whole itinerary for Paris with color coded instructions and neatly placed in a plastic sleeve so it doesn't get wrinkled. Just great people. Good people. Genuinely good people. Those are hard to come by, but Dundee seems to attract them. That definitely wasn't in the admissions book I received advertising Dundee, but it's an added bonus I was happy to discover.

Goodbye Scotland.
See you in three weeks.