almost there

Hello!

Okay this is my first blog post so bare with me. I'm currently sitting in the lobby of a holiday inn express about a mile from the airport...its 9 PM there is absolutely no where to go (its pouring and the place is only surrounded by other hotels...) and my family is watching desperate housewives.

My flight tomorrow is at 10:30 but its 16 hours...and then I have another connecting flight that's also 2 hours long so basically I don't want to sleep at all tonight so I can do that tomorrow all day, but seeing as how I'm stuck in a hotel I don't think that plan's going to work out very well.

I at least wanted to get this blog set up so I wasn't playing with it once I'm actually in Cape Town (and internet isn't free) so at least this is done :)

I'm studying abroad at the university of Cape Town (in South Africa). I've got two weeks of solid orientations to look forward too before classes start, which should be filled with some traveling too! The semester goes until June 5th but I'm hoping to stay for another week so I can see the opening of the World Cup (June 11th) and celebrate my 21st (June 13th). So here's to 5 months in a completely new hemisphere! I'm not even nervous yet, that might kick in on the plane tomorrow but as of right now its all pure excitement!

I promise my next post will be more exciting seeing as how I will actually be in Africa, but until then...