Two weeks and counting...

I finally caved and decided to create a blog because I think it will be a cool way to document my experiences in Sevilla. However, my feelings about blogs are mixed - how relevant can they be? Anyway, overcoming this fear, I've decided that I will keep a blog but also send occasional email updates (after all, I'm not going to be sitting at a computer wasting away in Europe).

I leave for New York on Monday, January 29th to spend a couple of days with extended family and possibly interview for a summer internship. I fly out of JFK on Wednesday, January 31 at 5:55pm, arriving in Madrid around 7am, and finally in Sevilla in late-morning, early afternoon. As of right now, I don't have much prepared for this trip. I realized today that HSBC, the world's local bank, apparently does not have personal financial services in Spain, so now I really do need to get to the bank and figure out the whole monetary situation. Today in church I got distracted thinking about all of the items I need to pack. Despite the mountain of preparation I have looming before me, I have elected to take the road less traveled - do nothing about it. Whenever something seems really overwhelming to me, my best solution is to not do anything. However, hopefully tomorrow I will get my act together, although I've been saying that for the last week.

For now, a big fear of the unknown. I've never been out of the country. But I've decided I'm going to "live in the moment" and take each piece at a time - traveling, orientation, meeting my host family (who I have yet to hear anything about, I'm starting to wonder if this is good or bad), starting classes. I'm only going to focus on one thing at a time, so for right now - getting there is my only concern.