Showing posts with label packing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label packing. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Getting all packed!

Well, today's the big day! I'm getting all packed and ready to go. Holy crap!


Greg doesn't seem to happy about me leaving for a month:


But he'll be fine. A 10 point bonus will be given out to those who can find my fuzzy purple "grimace slippers" in each of these shots.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Welcome to my travel blog!

Hey friends! As many of you know, I will be spending about a month (June 25th to July 23rd) teaching in Poland through the UNESCO program in Poland. I figured that setting up a blog would be the best way to keep everyone informed about what I'm doing and to share pictures and stories with my friends and family.

Right now I'm still in the process of getting all packed and ready. I've never gone on this long of a trip before so I'm still not sure I'm doing this right. It's a fine line between forgetting something important and overpacking. I have to pack some little trinkets to give out to kids in my homeroom -- little USA things that they can take home. So far, I've bought some MN postcards, some state quarters, and some replicas of old-timey luggage labels from famous hotels in great American cities. I think that should be enough.

I'm also spending a lot of time looking at these pictures that someone took on a previous trip with the same program. I can't believe I'm leaving in less than 2 days!