one week!

so.

in exactly one week from now i will be on a plane making my way across the atlantic to rome.

holy shit.

i think it has finally hit me that i'll be spending almost 4 months in a foreign country and i only have a week left in the states.

excited? absolutely. nervous? oh yes. freaking out? like you don't even know.

i'm just worried that i'll still be doing stuff and packing at the last minute, which i hate. i am getting a lot done during the day, and yet by the night i realize i still have so much more left to do. its like i keep remembering other stuff i have to do and my list just keeps growing.

i don't think i'm ever going to be fully ready for this.

and let's not even discuss how i'm going to handle being separated from my best friend and the ocho for like a year.

went on a shopping excursion with madre today, and another one is planned for tomorrow, because apparently i still have so much other stuff left to buy before i leave like toiletries and makeup and jeans and sneakers. oh lordie.

i'm off to go make more lists of things i need to do before i leave. it seems like my life has been reduced to looseleaf pages of scribbled lists nowadays.

ps. beach week was amazing, and i'm going to miss my friends sooooo much. i'm so lucky to have such amazing people in my life. <3