Hmmmm....havent been to Mass in a while...and i've never gone to one that lasted an hour and a half...this should be interesting...oh well.

the night before life goes on...

ok so in 10 hours and 15 minutes (from the time i'm starting this blog) my train will be pulling out of the train station and heading towards dc...well not exactly DC, i'm stopping halfway there to see LaShonda and have some wicked sweet pictures taken and get some food. but i'll be leaving for the summer in 10 hours and 15 min and to be completely honest, i'm not as nervous as i thought i would be. i was ready to be freaking out all night and not being able to sleep and just wanting to go take some Tylenol PM so i could fall asleep, but in all honesty, as soon as i finish this, i'm gonna crash, i am exhausted!

but i will say this, the train station in Burlington, NC is one of the most ridiculous places on this planet!!! the picture to the left of the text is all of the luggage that i'm allowed to have...for 10 weeks!! one bag, one backpack, and my guitar...WHAT THE HAYSTACK!!!! i mean really? every other friggen train station in NC and the surrounding states - that i know of -  have a freakin checked baggage car to the train...why not burlington??? if they did i could have twice the luggage, but NOOOOO they had to be complicated, but oh well. 

i'm sure that there is a lesson to be learned from living out of one bag of clothing for two and a half months...the simplicity of life? less is more? don't take a train out of Burlington, North Carolina?? i'm not sure what the lesson will be but i'm sure that there is one...i will let you know what it is when i figure it out.

anyway, so i should be arriving in Washington, DC at Union Station at roughly 8 pm tomorrow...big city at night...wonderful. though i'm sure that after being on a train all day, i wont even notice, and i'll probably go straight to sleep when i get to my host home...

speaking of my host home, i'm pretty sure that i have the best one. I'm staying with a woman named Nakiesha who lives alone in a 3 bedroom house. i'll have my own bedroom, we'll share a bathroom but i mean, i lived in a dorm for a year with 70-80 other girls, i'm sure sharing a bathroom with one other girl wont be an issue. but yeah, the best part of that is that i dont have to pay her for it at all. now, i'm gonna help her around the house and cook dinner and such, but she's not asking me for anything. how great is that??? i get to sit back and relax after working all day....

ugh about that, any of you who know me know that i'm not exactly the best at getting up early, and i've had to withdraw from 2 7:40 classes because i never woke up in time...well guess what time Amber has to be at work every morning....7 freakin 45!! what the heck! i work 745 to 530 every day. if nothing else, i'll be able to take 740 classes again...HAH!!! yeah right. i am NEVER taking another 740...i probably shouldnt say that, but i don't plan on taking another one, unless its a class i really like or one with someone i care enough about to make me get up and get to class for.

but yeah, so...now it's T - Minus 9 hours and  50 minutes until i will be riding off on the amtrak train...which don't even get me started on that...trains scare the sweet nibblets out of me!! but at least there will be an electrical outlet and food so i can watch movies on my laptop...

next time i'm on here, i will be writing to you from Washington, DC - about 2 miles from the White House =]