I am less than a week away from my Spanish adventure, and I would like to take this opportunity to discuss my most prominent worries/fears for this trip. I could write about my worries about food/the language/getting lost, but those are self explanatory. These are more individual worries.

1. Internet. What if I don't have internet in my homestay!?!? I specifically requested that I was in dire need of constant internet access! Yes I know there are internet cafés and what not, so it won't be hard to communicate with people back home, but that is not why it worries me. I ALWAYS play tetris before I go to sleep; Its a ritual. I won't be able to sleep without it, and without sleep I will do poorly in school and be a cranky girl. So, I am concerned for my well being.

2. Showering. In my handbook it says Spaniards showers do not exceed 8 minutes. Now for your average shower taker, that might be possible. However, I go above and beyond when I take showers, and normally use a good 20+ minutes. I just do not see how it will be possible to get myself entirely clean in such a short span of time. I mean hello, I am american and I like to be as hairless as possible. Being hairless=shaving=long time in shower. I mean I could shave (pun intended)a couple minutes off if I rushed the whole process, but 8 minutes! probably never. Furthermore, I do all of my meditating in the shower. So this is going to be difficult.

3. the look. There is no way I am going to be able to camouflage my american-ness. As much as I would like to, it is not going to be possible. I accept this. Accepting this is not going to decrease my urge to buy a bunch of clothes over there, clothes that I do not have the money for. Also I just got my first credit card.... I need to find willpower.

I feel like there is another thing I am worried about, but I forget now. So I probably resolved that worry. Okay time to clean/start packing...

-L

4! I remember what else worries me. The fact that there is so much quality television I will be missing this quarter!!!! So you think you can dance, the office and glee! Its going to be so sad. The office and glee will probably be online, but sytycd is not! How will I vote =(.