Less than a week till Europe

It is just a little less than a week now until I will be making my first trek to Europe! I am excited, yet apprehensive at the same time. What will it be like? Will my white american ass be able to cope with being in a strange land? I’ve only been west before, Costa Rica for our Honeymoon, South Korea, Australia, Hong Kong when we lived in Guam, I was 10 at the time, so I don’t remember much about being in a foreign land.

Luckily Natalie will be there by my side. She lived in Germany for 2+ years, was born and Switzerland, so hopefully she’ll be able turn on her European flair to save me!

The trip to Amsterdam (Noordwijkerhout) may end up being the first week of me being out of the country for two weeks. I hope to get the rest of my trip lined up this week, but I think I might be heading to Dubai in the UAE for a week after Amsterdam. That should be fun too, though I will most likely be going solo on this one, meeting with a client, and hopefully finding time to meet up with a friend from high school in California who I believe works in the UAE for an American company now.

The unfortunate aspect of both trips is that I will end up missing two weeks of school back to back, 3 classes of lecture, as one class is scheduled for a test which I will take this week before we leave for Europe. It’s been a busy couple of weeks, 10 days in Kansas, 5 days at home, 5 days (come Monday) here in the Boston area, and then 3 days at home before heading off for potentially two weeks.

I need to catch up on my sleep, though I’ve slept quite a bit while here in Boston, I’ve also spent quite a bit of time working and playing, so I am still exhausted.

More on my trips in the coming weeks, I’ll be sure to take lots of photos.