Reassurance is opening a financial aid letter which covers your entire senior year tuition.
Reassurance is finding airfare and hotel stays for less than your budget.
Reassurance is making a last minute VISA appointment after hitting the refresh button for 30 minutes.
Reassurance is coming home with an extra 50 dollars to go in the 'Europe fund'.
What a relief it is to know these decisions I've made over the last two years are paying off. I am in the right place, with the right people, and the world is at my fingertips.
10 days til takeoff :)
xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
parallel and perpendicular
Sometimes I feel like a crazy person. There are a million things to do and I don't know where to start, so I either go for a run to exhaust myself OR organize myself on paper.
It's usually in the form of a 'To-Do' list...I actually look back in my notebooks from school and every third or fourth page has a frenzy of things to check off, to accomplish, to get done. I have an entire steno with lists of movies to watch, books to read, places to go, etc. Some of it is essential, like booking plane tickets for a trip, and some is just fun stuff to indulge in when I have a free moment.
Today, I created a calendar. Not everyone can see it, but there is this countdown clock which looms over every plan I make and every day that goes by. With 3 weeks and 3 days until my departure, I hoped to pin my craziness down with parallel and perpendicular lines.
Whew, I feel better already.
On a separate note, I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS ADVENTURE TO BEGIN!
If I haven't already told you, I am backpacking for two weeks from Dublin to Amsterdam to London to Paris, and then down to Montpellier to begin my school program through December.
I WILL be taking my laptop with me and hope to document EVERYTHING. It's funny that this blog began as a travel journal two years ago and will become one once again! Please leave a comment or e-mail me your address if you would like to receive a postcard...I am gladly sending them from each stop along the way!
Currently listening to Waste by Foster the People
xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com
It's usually in the form of a 'To-Do' list...I actually look back in my notebooks from school and every third or fourth page has a frenzy of things to check off, to accomplish, to get done. I have an entire steno with lists of movies to watch, books to read, places to go, etc. Some of it is essential, like booking plane tickets for a trip, and some is just fun stuff to indulge in when I have a free moment.
Today, I created a calendar. Not everyone can see it, but there is this countdown clock which looms over every plan I make and every day that goes by. With 3 weeks and 3 days until my departure, I hoped to pin my craziness down with parallel and perpendicular lines.
Whew, I feel better already.
On a separate note, I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS ADVENTURE TO BEGIN!
If I haven't already told you, I am backpacking for two weeks from Dublin to Amsterdam to London to Paris, and then down to Montpellier to begin my school program through December.
I WILL be taking my laptop with me and hope to document EVERYTHING. It's funny that this blog began as a travel journal two years ago and will become one once again! Please leave a comment or e-mail me your address if you would like to receive a postcard...I am gladly sending them from each stop along the way!
Currently listening to Waste by Foster the People
xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
anticipation
Approximately one month until I leave for Europe.
Physical preparations have been underway for a while...my applications, my plane tickets, choosing what I'll be able to take over with me, etc.
But now the mental and emotional preparation starts.
I started reading The Irreverent Guide to Paris and the words I needed sit on the first page:
"The intensity of Parisian feelings multiplies on the return. There is the visit, and there is the return, the tiny thrill of re-connecting with the person you were in Paris. The person in you that you like best and can't always be".
xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com
Physical preparations have been underway for a while...my applications, my plane tickets, choosing what I'll be able to take over with me, etc.
But now the mental and emotional preparation starts.
I started reading The Irreverent Guide to Paris and the words I needed sit on the first page:
"The intensity of Parisian feelings multiplies on the return. There is the visit, and there is the return, the tiny thrill of re-connecting with the person you were in Paris. The person in you that you like best and can't always be".
xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
influential
There are some people so lively and vibrant that you never forget them. You carry a piece of them wherever you go and hope that one day, you will be a perfect and classy woman like them.
Thank you Hester :)
xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com
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