Your Pre-departure Packet

There's a lot of information in the pre-departure packet for my study abroad trip. But what they don't tell you is that the first thing you really should do is create a study abroad blog. For various reasons, such as keeping a record of your travels, sharing pictures and stories, and mainly just giving all your friends and family a link to follow so that they can confirm you are indeed alive and kicking - just having entirely too much fun to keep track of your cell phone.

Create blog: Check.

I haven't packed yet, or really done much of anything worthy of sharing, but I am counting down and leave a week today. Just to give you a glimpse of where I'm headed...

On Sunday, June 19th I fly out of Houston headed for London. It's an overnight flight, so I will arrive early Monday morning. Then I'll spend the week in London, seeing sights, learning lots and hopefully running into some family.

Sunday, June 26th I leave for Amsterdam in the morning. I'll spend a few days in Amsterdam, before leaving for Paris on Wednesday, June 29th.

I'm in Paris until my birthday - when I travel to Switzerland to spend a two days in Lucerne.Yes, I'm traveling on my birthday. But spending it in two different countries sounds pretty not bad to me :)

We leave Lucerne on Wednesday, July 6th to head to Venice where we stay until Saturday, July 9th - which is when we travel to Florence.

From Florence, we head to our final city - Rome. I am in Rome from Wednesday July, 13th til Sunday July 17th - the day I fly home to the states!

Yes, I will be very busy - and probably have to go see Harry Potter with Italian subtitles, BUT it is going to be a most excellent trip. I already know I'll be taking my camera, and probably overloading my memory cards so feel free to live vicariously through me :)

I'll keep you updated - wish me luck packing!
Lucy