pre-departure

This semester is drawing to a close and that means that I am getting ever closer to my semester abroad in Monterrey, Mexico. I have been looking forward to this for about a year now, and after much hard work, paper work, and phone calls it is official a go. I was accepted back in mid October, and have been doing busy with other pre-departure tasks.

I have sent away every thing for host family placement, but unfortunately am still waiting for information. Today I got an e-mail from there coordinator saying I still need to send the money and paperwork, so not a good sign. Hopefully it will all work out within the next week.

This past weekend there was a pre-departure information session for all the students going abroad in the spring. It was very informative, yet long and way to early in the morning for a rainy Saturday. However this meeting brought with it another snafu. I got my insurance card, and do to me being good and filling everything out early I used the original school end date, but that date has gone back 4 days, so now I am uncovered for those four days. A big problem see that the school requires me to be fully covered for every day of the semester. Oh well just something else to devote time to while studying for and taking finals.

Anyways, even with these two obstacles I am very much excited for this experience. I will try to keep this blog updated, I promise at least once a week.