One More Week...

I feel like ever since I packed up and left Clemson after exams last semester that I have been living out of a bag. Living at home doesn't feel the same because I know it is temporary. I couldn't move everything back to Clemson after break because there was no point. So I feel like I have been living out of a suitcase and quite frankly I hate it. I'm ready to get to the point where I have my stuff set up in my room for an extended period of time. Packing has never really been hard for me to do, but it really hit me on Saturday when I started packing my stuff in Clemson. This was probably the hardest it has ever been for me to pack up and leave the place I love and the people I love. I only have 1 short week left with my family and a day or 2 to say goodbye to friends in Clemson. It's really getting hard to comprehend leaving as I realize just how much I'm going to miss everyone. 4 months is a long time to be away from everything you love. I already told Lauren and Dad that the only thing I request be at the airport when I get back is a big glass of sweet tea. It's the little thing like that which I have started to realize. I'm also getting to the point where I almost don't want to leave. Living out of a suitcase is getting old, packing is getting harder and harder, and the realization that I am going to miss everyone is really starting to set in. But this time next week I'll be 30 minutes out of Newark Liberty International Airport, just having left the United States, and on a loooooooong flight to London. (For those who don't know...I'm flying out of Charlotte at 4:40 to Newark, NJ, for a connecting flight to London, then up to Glasgow). One more week, so we'll see how this goes...