Katy's Big Adventure Deep In The Heart of Texas

Everything is just about packed and ready to be put in my car. I'm leaving tomorrow at 4am and will take it easy going down South, stopping for four nights before I make it to check-in at Institute Monday afternoon- mi cumple!

My dad is making the drive with me so we can enjoy some sights along the way and maybe camp one night.

This evening I'll spend the night trying to finish the third Twilight (even though its the most annoying book I've ever read) and playing with my new laptop. (finally!)

I have to admit this time leaving is WAY different than leaving two years ago. Leaving to go abroad for the first time like that is all about surviving. Not in the sense of staying alive, even though there were plenty of moments when I did concentrate on staying alive, but more just surviving being alone and being on your own and doing everything solo. Doing everything for self discovery and for that feeling of independence.

I have to say that is the opposite of what I'm feeling now. Even though I will still struggle through my Spanish again, and will not know anyone, again...I'm not going there to discovery things about myself. Of course that will happen, that's natural, but that is not the purpose of my journey. My purpose is to teach, and teach I shall.

Let the next chapter of my life begin.