My Thailand Visa came in the mail yesterday and my Thailand Information Packet from GSC came today. Now, everything I have procrastinated on is done and ready to go...documentation-wise at least. Packing will be my next feat. I have created the list, but knowing myself I will be packing the last few days before my departure. I received Rosetta Stone for Thai and have been slowly working on that, as well as piling up my to-read pile with books about Thailand and Asia.

I have never seriously left the country before. I have gone to England and Scotland in the past, but that was with family and for a short couple weeks. This is different. I am flying by myself, to a country I do not know a whole lot about, and will be living there for two months. Am I ready? Not sure. I will have to be in two weeks though.

When I think that I still have two weeks until I fly out of the Duluth airport many things fill me--anxiety, nervousness, excitement, frustration, happiness, and passion. I have wanted this for so long; I have wanted to go out into the world. Here I am. Going. On some days two weeks seems like an extreme amount of time to wait, but on other days two weeks feels much to short. There is much to do--doctor appointments, dentist appointments, packing, learning a bit of Thai, reading up on how to teach English, prepare for post-Thailand plans, etc. As seen in the past, it will all get done. Oh boy...here we go.