Hello!
So I finally started a blog. I probably would not have done so, except that in a few weeks I will find myself very far from home and needing a way to keep my friends and family updated about my life. I figure that writing a blog is like meeting everyone half-way: I'll write in it because I care, and you'll read it because you are interested in what I'm doing. At least, that's the plan :)
And where is it that I'm going? On August 11 I am leaving for Virginia! I am enrolled in Institute for Conflict Resolution and Analysis, where I will be working on a Masters degree for the next few years. It will take me about a week to drive there, stopping along the way to stay with friends and see the country! Truthfully, I might be more excited for the solo road trip than for anything else. If anyone has any books on tape they want to lend me for the drive, now is the time to speak up! I'll do my best to post pictures here.
Once I get to Virginia, I will move into a house about three miles away from the school where I will be living with other students from my program. I haven't met any of my roomies, or even visited Arlington before this, so I have no idea what is in store. Hopefully there will be no nasty surprises (like living in a basement full of spiders - PS: my roommates have been finding HOBO spiders in the house lately) and everything will go smoothly.
I basically I have no idea what to expect once I get there. I keep telling myself that if everything sucks, then at least I'm still in a really cool part of the country. I can always go to the Smithsonian and try not to think about all the really good opportunities I passed up in Tacoma (and I'm not being sarcastic about this), or the outrageous amount of debt I am accruing. I hope that I made the right decision!
