Ten More Days!!!

I've told a few people that I would make a blog to keep them updated on what I'm up to while I'm gone and I'm just getting it set up. I'm down to the ten day count down and I'm getting pretty excited/nervous/anxious all at the same time. I'm almost completely ready to go...all I have left is to buy some essentials like more toothpaste and hair stuff (just incase they don't have the same stuff over seas...those are two things I don't feel like changing) and a few more goodbyes.

My flights are as follows:
Departure - Sept 15th @ 3:30pm from Sea-Tac
Arrival - Sept 15th @ 6:06pm in San Diego

Departure - Sept 15th @ 8:05pm from San Diego
Arrival - Sept 15th @ 2:25pm (6:25am US time) in London/Heathrow

Departure - Sept 16th @ 4:00pm (8:00am US time) from London/Heathrow
Arrival - Sept 16th @ 5:20pm (9:20am US time) in Belfast, Northern Ireland!!!!!!

From what I know at this point I will be getting to Belfast a day earlier than I have to be there. So, I have a hotel room booked for the night of the 16th and will meet up with someone (or multiple someones) from IFSA-Butler (the program I'm studying abroad through) and I'm guessing some other students traveling abroad to the same university as me at the same hotel I'm staying at around 1:00pm (5:00am US time) on the 17th. We are staying at that hotel for a couple days to go through IFSA-Butler's orientation and then heading to the University of Ulster - Jordanstown campus in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland to move in to where I will be living for the next couple of months! I don't start classes until Sept 26th so I will have a little over a week to get situated.

I don't know my address yet but as soon as I do I will let everyone know. I know that I will be staying in the university's idea of dorm rooms which is more like an apartment with 5-6 people. I will be taking 3 classes while abroad, not signed up for anything specific yet but I know that I will be trying to take a sociology class, a political science class, and a management/leadership class.

This blog is early, like I said, just trying to figure out the thing and let you know what's coming!