I have 29 days! 29 days until I get on a plane and go to a place I've dreamed of going for ages...England!!! I just can't wait. I've had to stop myself from packing on multiple occasions. It's crazy to think it's so soon though. I'm getting ready! I've had some pre-departure assignments that I've been working on. I really need to get on to that. But yesterday I was actually working on it a bit. Part of our pre-departure portfolio is making a travel itinerary for a weekend trip and a week trip. I worked on both yesterday.
My weekend trip is the one I've been waiting years for. About 4 years ago I got this obsession with Norway, and it hasn't gone away and probably has only gotten worse. I've been wanted to go an planning ways to go and now finally I have my chance. If all goes as plan (which it probably will) I will go to norway for my long weekend in September. I wanted to go for a week but my week is in late November and I don't think it'd be easy to find someone willing to go with me that late...it gets a bit cold. At least I'll get to spend a couple days in Oslo and get to go while it's still fall. I can't wait!!! I'm sure I'll just be giddy fulfilling a dream I've had for basically over 4 1/2 years.
The reason I know how long it has been is because I have pin pointed about the time I became obsessed with Norway. My freshmen year of high school my family and I took a trip to Disney World. My favorite park has always been EPCOT and I've loved all the country pavilions. (last time I went to Disney World I spent part or all of 5 of the 7 days I was there at EPCOT) But this particular time I was draw to the Norway Pavilion for some reason. Well for some reason ever sense then I've been obsessed. So that's why I'm so excited about going!
That trip was easy but planning my week trip was going to be hard. I went into planning this week trip thinking it'll be fun but I might not go on it and just go with someone else. My dad suggested Switzerland and Austria and I like the sound of that so I started planning. So I was planning the cities I might visit and decided I had to go to Prague because it's probably my number 3 city I want to visit in Europe so why not go up to Prague at the end of the trip. So I was thinking start in Zurich and go to Salzburg, Vienna, and end up in Prague. My mom said she loved Vienna and I'm sure I would to but for some reason researching it didn't make it sound that appealing. I mean it would be cool to visit but I just wasn't that excited about it. So I decided to look at other nearby cities and saw on the map Bratislava, Slovakia. And now my heart is basically set on that! I researched a bit and decided it was my type of city. It's not as touristy so it seems more like me. I think it would be a really neat experience because it's not something that a lot of people get a chance to do. Most people go to France, Italy, Germany and I'd like to go to those places but there is something that draws me in a way to Bratislava. So hopefully that might actually work out as long as I can find someone as crazy as me. We will see but I hope that would work!
I will probably go to Paris on my other weekend off because it's kind of the place to go and I figure I should do that. So we'll see. I'll be taking French anyway. I might get to practice!
The decision would be harder if I wasn't going to go to Spain on a class trip. Our group is spending almost 2 weeks in Spain, which I'm so excited about! I love Spanish and have wanted to go to Spain too!
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