It's Really Happening!

Hey All,

  Got my flight intinerary for actually leaving to go to Bulgaria this morning.  It all seems so real now.  Just over a month to go before I depart from the good ol' USA!  Leaving at noon on January 6 and looking to arrive in Bulgaria at noon on the 7th.  Flights and time zones still kind of boggle my mind a bit, especially since without time zones that's technically 24 hours, but in reality it's only 12...  Kind of hard to wrap my mind around.  Although I must say, I would greatly appreciate a later return time since I have to be at the airport at 4 in the morning!!  Alas, it's all set and ready to go and really I can't complain too much.  I mean, I am going to be living in a foreign country for around 5 months!  Not too many people from around home can say that.

  On another note, however, I am still waiting on a few more documents before I can go get my visa process started at the Embassy.  I'm hoping I can extract them from the clutches of the government soon.  Unfortunately, due to the whole application and notification process of the ISEP program, Spring semester applicants have a very short window in which to complete a very lengthy process.  I swear, I feel as if I am applying to join the CIA or something instead of just going to study abroad.  Someone asked me the other day if I was going to work over there (as a student I'm not allowed) and I looked at them like they were crazy.  One visa process is more than enough for me thank you!  And of course, it's only one thing holding up the entire process.  I'm hoping to get it back this week.  Keep your fingers crossed! 

  One more week of this semester left, exams, moving out of the dorm, policy memos and term papers.  I'm looking fowards to it being over and I can be that much closer to Bulgaria.  Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more Bularian Adventures!  It's really happening!

~OwlHeart