Ch-ch-ch Changes

I’m homeless. 

Well, not really, but it feels like I am.  For the first time since I went away to school, I do not have my own apartment.  My life is in two places, and I am in a sort of limbo between them.  Right now I am staying with friends while I substitute teach in GR.  Next week I’ll go back to my hometown to spend my last few days in the states with my family.  It is sooo weird not having a home base!

I have begun packing, and my goal is to travel to Korea with only one checked piece of luggage, one carry on, and a backpack as my personal item.  Typically people move to another country with at least two checked bags, but I don’t feel like shoveling out the extra cash required to do so.  Besides, now I won’t feel so bad bringing back a second suitcase of the things I will have accumulated during the course of a year in another country.  So far I’m doing pretty well…vacuum bags are pretty awesome inventions.  It is just a challenge to anticipate everything that I could possibly need to take.  I am relatively certain I will be able to buy shoes, since I understand the cutoff for women is around size 8, and I am a 7.  Not so sure about clothing, though.  Here I am a fairly trim person, but over there, I am plus-sized!  This is going to be interesting.


11 days 'till take-off!