Counting Down the Months...

(To set the mood)

"Our first experiences with travel are likely an attempt to lose our innocence, and then later, perhaps, to regain it. Our earliest journeys may be to fill a blank page and our later ones to erase some of the marks we have made in the world and the world has made on us. One way or the other, travel is about innocence lost or recaptured, about changing the way we see ourselves and how we live our lives. If even true travel doesn't transform us permanently, it usually allows us to leave personal history behind. When we travel, there is only History and the characters we make of ourselves. Our lives become a new page--a blank one--for experience to write upon. As travelers, we are in the world now, in the immediate and present sensation, not drifting in the past or yearning for (or fearing) the future."           


--Michael Pearson
  Innocents Abroad Too: Journeys Around the World on Semester at Sea


Five weeks from now I will board a plane to Prague. I am studying abroad in Prague for six weeks, working on a marketing project with DRAFTFCB Prague and their client, Kraft. I am extremely excited, but even so, I feel like most of my thoughts these days are occupied by images of the MV Explorer. I feel like I am stuck somewhere in time, waiting for school to end, waiting for Prague, and waiting for my ultimate destination: Semester at Sea. Focusing on these last few weeks of school is nearly impossible. I put off writing papers by searching YouTube in hopes to find another SAS video I still haven't seen (it's getting more and more difficult). I procrastinate, refusing to study, instead I read new blog entries posted by students on the ship. Saying I am excited is an understatement. I just need to make it through finals. May 11, hurry up already!