9 days!

Including today there are just 9 days left until I leave! That is crazy to me. I went out with my mom a few days ago and did a bunch of shopping. There are only a few more things to be sorted out. Part of what I want to get done before I go is some posts (maybe videos) about what I'm doing to get ready. I know that I have spent the last 3 or 4 months reading and watching everything I could find about study abroad and about Beijing. There are a few things that I haven't seen other videos or blogs cover so on the off chance that a future study abroad student stumbles upon this blog I'll be making some posts about those things.

Hopefully that will get done today! Now that I have just 2 or 3 little things left to get I'm going to start packing and making sure I don't need to eliminate anything from my list and that I didn't forget anything I needed. Still not sure how I am going to check the weight of my bag but maybe I'll just borrow a scale from someone.

Studying is way behind where I wanted to be so I'm spending a lot of time trying to get that done but at this point I'm reminding myself that even when I was in class I didn't remember every single character I ever learned so it's fine if I don't remember all of them now. I'm going to look pretty silly during my placement test since I'll be in too high of a group. They base your test group off of how many characters you said you knew on the application to the school and since I answered based on what I should have learned it's not going to go well. I didn't realize just how much I forgot! Oh well, I can deal with one afternoon of embarrassment and I'm sure I'll end up in the right class at the end of it.