Finally, a chance to breathe (and update here!). I'm going to cheat, split this into two posts, and backdate the first (if I can figure out how) so that it's more true to how my life is actually going. So here is round 1, about the excitement that was the travel itself.



After what was admittedly a rough goodbye to my hometown (how can it be easy when it's this gorgeous?), I boarded a series of planes starting at 7am on 12/01/2010.



20 hours later, a new sun, a new continent, a new semester!




And here we go...