ONE. MORE. MONTH.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, continue the countdown! As of the date of this posting, I leave for Spain in exactly one month and one day.  Armed with a new (gargantuan) suitcase, a new backpack, and all new wardrobe, I am almost ready. All that is lacking is submitting my flight itinerary and making my schedule official with UT. It’s almost here, guys. I’ll be headed back to UT in the beginning of January, not to start class, but to run all over campus working on getting my classes approved. Why? Because I’m a procrastinator. Don’t use me as an example, kids. But in only a couple weeks, I’ll find out who my host family is! I know NOTHING of them other than I requested kids and no cats. I don’t even know if I’ve already been matched with them or not yet. Expedia did email me today and inform me that my flight time has been changed slightly. I now leave at 12:40 pm from BNA (Nashville) to JFK (New York) and then from JFK at 7:05 to Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD). I’ll arrive at MAD at around 8:05 am local time. I then will be picked up between 10 and 11 by my company (ISA) and taken to my hostel to begin the touring of Madrid. I leave Madrid on January 30^th and actually tour Toledo that afternoon. I finally arrive in Sevilla on January 31^st and then meet my host family. I have orientation on February 1^st at my university along with the city tour put on by my company, ISA. I then start classes February 4^th! I will not know my class hours until I’m actually in Sevilla. After this Christmas, I experienced my first sad feeling about being gone for so long. There will be lots of things that will be going on while I’m gone: an entire semester at UT, a semester at LCHS, March Madness, the Super Bowl, and the final months before Brooke (Beck) Hall has her baby!  I know in the coming month I’ll be experiencing about every emotion but the excitement rules them all. My trip is all I think about. I hope you all are ready for an ONSLAUGHT of pictures, statuses, tweets, Instagram posts, and blog entries. If you have any questions, please ask! It’s almost time, folks. Here we go!