leaving

Okay, now I can cross this thing off of my frantic to-do list. In four hours, I will be leaving my house for two months. In six hours, I will be boarding a Brussels-bound plane with my family. I have a bunch of stuff to do yet, but it's okay. Hopefully this plane has free internet.

For those of you who have no idea what is happening, which I've found is a lot of you, it is this:
I got an international study grant from VCUarts to study bookmaking in Germany. Since I've only taken one semester (and one month in high school (another story)) of German, I'm taking advantage of the German language study abroad program VCU offers in Vienna, Austria for a month before doing the research.

So, here's my itenerary:
• June 24-28: Belgium with family, staying with family friend
• June 28-July 1: Colonge/Heidelberg/Stuttgart in Germany with family
• July 2-31: Vienna, Austria with study abroad program
• August 1-21: Hamburg/Mainz/Leipzig all alone!

Henceforth, I will refer to places in their German names, e.g. Vienna = Wien. I guess that's important, because at least I didn't know that Vienna is not always called Vienna.

I'll post photos, drawings, and stories here when I can. Tschüss, Freunde!