"A Tale Never Loses In The Telling"

Tonight is my last night in America so I felt it was an appropriate time to start my study abroad blog. If all goes well this time tomorrow ill be on a plane headed for Edinburgh!!!

Originally I planned on being very productive today. I wanted to run all those last minute errands that I still needed to do before I left.  However, I probably should have realized that starting a trip that is supposed to be a spontaneous and wild adventure with a detailed plan would never work. Of course those thoughts never occurred to me until I woke up this morning to find the ground still covered with eight inches of snow.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of snow in Atlanta allow me to educate you.  In Atlanta it snows at most twice a year, and when it snows it usually doesn't reach more than 2 or 3 inches.  Because of this severe lack of winter weather the city of Atlanta has decided that snowplows are a useless investment and it is more cost effective to not clear the roads and just allow the city to shut down for a day.  Now, when I was in school here this was great.  Even the mere threat of snow would warrant school and work to be canceled and I could spend the day sleeping, eating and watching T.V. However, the snowstorm that hit on Monday was not quite that enjoyable.  Apparently this is the most snow the city has had in a decade and the department of transportation has thus requested that everyone stay off the roads and inside the house.  So, alas, for the past two days I have been literally trapped inside my home.

Now, the Gorelick house is a stressful place to be before any trip, so you can only imagine the sheer magnitude of anxiety caused by preparing me for my 4 month stay in Scotland.  Considering that no one could leave the house escape the chaos, I have to give a big shout-out to my mom and dad for not killing me nor each other during our two day incarceration. Fortunately no deaths occurred in the preparation for my departure and somehow (I'm still not really sure how we did it) my mom and I managed to pack an entire 4 months worth of clothes into one bag.

 So now here I am, obviously unable to sleep because of the massive amount of emotions running through me.  I'm so excited to leave, but I'm also so sad to be saying goodbye to everyone for so long! I just cant believe that its finally time for me to leave and that this time tomorrow I'll be in an entirely different country! Hopefully after my ten hours of flying I'll still be this excited, but considering my inability to sleep on planes I have my doubts.

Anyways this post is far too long considering i havent even left for the airport yet (lets hope that goes well, you never know considering the precarious state of the non-snowplowed Atlanta roads), but hopefully ya'll made it through!

I'll write again soon from across the pond(!!)