If you're in a similar position as me, you're leaving to go abroad now. You have a mix of nervous and excited emotions popping up, and there's a bit of stuff you have to get done. You don't have a lot of money to your name, but you're gonna have the best abroad experience EVER.
1. I'm gonna be soooo poor
Like really poor when I come back. I don't think I have a lot of money in my bank account right now, so we should see how a semester of travel and food adds up. The budget I gave myself for a full year is now going to be condensed into four months. If anyone needs a babysitter in the winter, please keep me in mind.
2. I need more clothes!
Even though I don't, I think I do. Europeans are so cool! So edgy! How do I look like them? Buy more black, probably.
3. The moneys
You gotta tell your bank where you'll be so they don't think a random northern European stole your card info. PS - I really look forward to paying all of those transaction fees :)
4. Drinking age
See #1: I'm gonna be sooooo poor. Like, really.
5. I'm gonna be soooo cultured
When I come back I see myself saying "Well we did this in Copenhagen" or "This isn't how the French drink..." I apologize in advance, friends.
6. Packing
I'm gonna have to live out of one bag for how long? It's how much to check a second bag? It's time to get creative with this wardrobe.
7. European romance??
8. How does one grocery shop?
I can't stick to a shopping list in America. How the heck am I supposed to stick to one when I can't even read the labels and foreign currency feels like Monopoly money?
9. Missing family
I am preemptively missing my dogs already. I keep taking pictures for when I miss them. And I'm going to be in complete different time zones than my entire family? What?
10. School?!
So, I won't be traveling for four months straight? I have classes? And homework? Looking at my schedule makes me feel like that 8:30 class on Fridays was a big mistake for travel and other things.
11. Missing friends
I look forward to seeing those Snapchats of all of my friends hanging out! Oh wait, I'll be tearing up. It's fine. I'm fine. You're fine. We're all fine.
12. Missing ~srat~
Your big and little will have to go on fam dates without you... You'll miss fall philanthropy... And three functions...
13. Missing campus
So how do I add a picture of the Villanova church while I'm in Copenhagen? And how does one attend both Homecoming and Oktoberfest? Asking for a friend.
14. Adulting
I don't know how to do this in America, so it should be fun to do it in Europe where they are even more sophisticated. Time to fool the world into thinking I am self-sufficient.