The Pre-Adventure Begins

So tomorrow (today really since its 2AM here) I begin the first leg of my crazy travel journey. At 7AM my family and I head down to our condo in Florida for the holidays. Since there's really no family we have to visit, it doesn't matter where we are when, so today was Christmas for me and I opened presents and packed, and then packed some more. I had to pack for the normal Florida trip and also for London since I come back at night on the 3rd and leave again early morning on the 4th. Not much time for the repacking I have to do, especially since I am slow. It seems like I have done nothing but pack recently, its nuts. I still don't know why my mom insisted on me bringing all the suitcases to the basement just to have me bring them back up two days later, but whatever. There are now 4 suitcases in my room and I have no clothes to wear here. I hope everything is as organized as I think it is, otherwiseI going to forget something really important, like my cell phone charger. I don't think my phone will hold its charge for 3 months. I'm going to go pack it now.

It was really sad to have to say good bye to my friends tonight. They get frustrated with me because I never stay in one place for very long, and now I won't see them for like 6-9 months and probably only for a few days even then (sorry guys, i really do miss you, i swear.) And now I am begining practicing having no communication, sice we have no internet in Florida. I hope everyone is having a very nice Christmas/Hannukah and everyone has a good New Years... sucks that I'm missing all of them. I'm getting up early so I should head to bed and shut down the computer. I hate doing that, its like I'm closing off contact with the world. Don't forget about me while my computer is dark! Just beacuse I won't be posting for a while doesn't mean I don't want to!

So this may be it until I'm settled in an internet cafe in London, so wish me luck and I'll post updates as soon as I find reliable internet. So Long, Farewell, Alveidersein... (so I can't spell German)... Good-bye for now.

Step One

Hello and Welcome (again)

So to those of you to whom I have been a bad friend (bad me) and I have not kept in very close contact with and are wondering why you were sent this link, the short answer is: I'm going to London.

I am embarking on a 6 month (min) adventure to London, England where I will study Art, Design and Theatre at Goldsmiths College in New Cross London. (Feel free to visit!!) I will post an address as soon as I get one. I may find a job and stay for the summer, but I will at least be accross the pond until June.

Basically I wanted a way to keep in touch with everyone and to relay any stories or asventures I come accross and i was not satisfied with any of teh established means of internet communication. (Especially since I won't ahve internet inmy dorm.. or heat....) So if I manage to do anything exciting, I will write about it here in true blogger fashion... hopefully this won't make me completely lame, but calling each of you, while ultimately better as a himan being, is way to expensive. I am encouraging everyone to download skype which will be my verbal means of communication, but for the casual observer of my life, bookmark this page and check back often to see how I'm doing. :)


The Basics: I am home (in Chicago) now and I leave for Florida on teh 23rd, return to Chicago Jan 3rd and fly to London on the 4th, just in time to miss my orientation and registration before apparently starting classes on Friday the 5th.

I seem to have developed magnetic properties, so I am hoping no more of my electronics crash as I move freely about the world. Right now I am scared, nervous, anxious, excited, ansty, filled will eagerness and trepidation and all around freaked out by the whole ordeal. I want to go, I need to go, but at the same time i am going to miss everyone and be so much farther away than I have ever ran before. And no matter how far I go, my shadows travel with me (big bonus points to anyone who can find the whole quote) Part of me has been dragging my feet the whole time, waiting until the last minute to do important things like apply for a visa, but another part of me knows that I would fall apart if I wasn't able to go. It is tiem for me to get out of small-town Bethlehem and the whole US of A and see something and be something. I hope to relax and clear my mind so that I might finally be ready to make something of myself when I eventually come back. I have all the advice I have recieved packed in the back of my brain, even if I haven't even thought about how to pack my luggage. I have set everything in motion, now all I have to do is follow the course I have laid out, making slight alterations along the way. Well world, here I come

Just the Begining

Hey

So I decided I didn't like livejournal or Facebook to post my adventures abroad. Livejournal doesn't have enough of my friends and I don't want to make more sign up for it because believe it or not, livejournal isn't for everyone. And facebook notes just aren;t visable enough. While I like the fact that I'd be guaranteed that everyone would be on facebook at least twice a day, I doubt many people would actually notice if made a note unless I tagged every single one of you in every note, and that is a bit tedious. So I am consolidating everythign here. I feel a little weird now that I am officially a blogger (how lame) but just in case I actually do anything exciting or just in case anyone cares, I can record it all here. This might help me remember in teh furture as well.

So this is it folks. Its not as easy as Livejournal, you all will have to actually click on another link to get news from me, and its not as fancy as Nyko's personal website, but I think it will work. And I got to pick a background with polka dots. I like polka dots. So please, check back often and I will try to keep posting and keep you all updated with everything I am doing in the (apparently) backward country of England. (no heat or internet!? this is the stone age!)

Please enjoy this digital translation of my travels and my shadows.

~Kathryn