Today is December 10th and that means we are one month away from our departure date of January 10th to Buenos Aires. I’m so excited I can barely stand it. I still have so much to do before I go, but things are coming along. As of today school has reached its climax for me. I took my last final today. Oddly enough it was in my Spanish class. I’m glad to learn at least a little bit of the language before I go diving in to the vast culture.
I still have to finish my paper for my astronomy class, but other than that I am free! Jordan will be done with school officially on Thursday and he can hardly wait. It’s weird to think that my academic career has reached a stopping point, such as it is. If you figure I’ve been in school since I was five years old and that I’m now 21 that mean at least 16 years of my life dedicated to school. There never seemed to be a set ending point in sight. You had high school and then your focus was set on college. You picked your classes, spent whole quarters immersed in the subject, took your exams, had a short break, and then started the whole process all over again. But now it’s suddenly done. There’s no more. School is over and I’m embarking on the longest summer vacation I never imagined I’d take, in January no less!
There still many things to take care of, but I’m slowly checking things off the list. Getting all my necessary medications and shots in order was a biggie. My typhoid pills are sitting at home in the fridge as we speak. Now I need to figure out what kind of backpack to take. And pack up my room…and buy Christmas presents for everyone…and make sure I have all my documents in order.
Oh yeah, and I still need to finish that blasted astronomy paper.
But tis the season for joy and celebration, and boy am I ready for it!
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Yes! I can’t believe it’s all actually over. It defenitely has not sunk in yet. I always thought that after my last class of school ever, I would be overjoyed, jumping up and down, pumping my fists, singing “hallelujah!” and…ok maybe not all that…but instead all I wanted to do was go home and sleep. I don’t feel any different…it still feels like I will still be going to school. It is, basically, all I know. School has dominated my time for 16 years (like you said). I don’t know when it will hit me that I’m completely done with school and I have a degree. There will probably be some random moment in South America, riding in the back of some truck, when it will all of a sudden hit me and I will start jumping up and down and then fall out of the back of the truck and go splat and Adam and the poor driver will have to take me to some hospital in the middle of nowhere where they will stick needles in me and of course they will be unclean needles being short of supplies and then I will get some life threatening disease but I won’t care because I know that I am done with school and I will be in so much pain anyway from going splat from the back of the truck that I will say…”hey bring on this life-threatening disease.” Yeah…anyways…the point of my story is that being done with school hasn’t sunk in yet.
Comment by Jordan — December 11, 2005 @ 6:52 am