t-14 hours until takeoff

I have gone through hell this evening running around my house trying to find my camera charger. "What the hell good is a camera in Europe if you can't charge it once it runs out of batteries?" Luckily my mom found it. It sucks to move and then pack for a trip. I hardly knew where anything was anymore.

Then, I had a rough time getting new music for my ipod. A few months ago I stepped on my laptop, and after a few weeks the screen went kaput and now I can't access my itunes library, and I've just had to stick with what was already on there. But I can't image spending a total of 9 hours on a plane without any new music. So my awesome brother-in-law has fixed up my netbook to work with my ipod, and Brandi was a sweetheart and sent me a bunch of new music. I will be a happy camper. As long as I don't get motion sick. Yikes.

So the flight is 1:50pm tomorrow. I'm glad that I'm on the flight with Lanny and Amanda and Allison and other people in our program. Then I get to meet Mari and Lupe on Thursday morning. I'm nervous, but excited too. This is really the first time I've been nervous about this thing. I wonder if I'll be able to sleep tonight.

I'm keeping this travel blog for my MC 401 paper, for my field experience. I need to track how my work and research is going while I'll be abroad. I'm so excited for this opportunity, and I mean I love to journal, too. I love to look back later and see what I've learned and how far I've come.

As for now (it could change if they don't like me, or if I don't like them) I'm going to intern for el Federacion de Mujeres Progresistas (Federation of Progressive Women). I have no clue what my duties might be, but I can be quite sure that it won't be simply filing or whatnot.

I honestly can't believe that I have this opportunity. Months ago, probably around November, I vowed to myself that I was going to get out of East Lansing/Michigan for this Summer. There was no way I was going to let life keep happening to me the way it was. So I took charge. But STILL I had no idea that it would take me to Madrid, Spain for 3 months! How incredible! I feel so blessed and lucky to have this opportunity, and I hope and pray that I will put all I can into this experience so that I will get the absolute most out of it as well. :)