Winding Down and Speeding Up

I've been in St. Louis for two weeks and am leaving for Korea in less than week now. Technically, I will be flying over the Pacific exactly one week from today. In the time that I've been here, I've been visiting family and friends and studying for my GRE.

And I killed my GRE. I mean, I did a lot better than I was expecting. Now, they say that one cannot cram for the GRE but I did it. I went from not remembering how to multiply fractions to getting a pretty solid score in a week. It CAN be done. It just needs a lot of time devoted to it.

Since my GRE on Thursday, I have procrastinated started unpacking from Minneapolis, only to re-pack again in a few days. I also made over 100 cakeballs yesterday for the lovely farewell dinner that my mom threw for me.

Red Velvet, Chocolate Peanut Butter, and Cookies and Cream. Be jealous.

I will really miss not having an oven and not being able to bake while I am over there. I'm sure I'll get creative but I really enjoy making these! In all honestly, I just enjoy the accolade that I receive from everyone when they taste them.

Today I did my big Costco trip and spent more money on medicine than I ever thought I would. I bet if I added up the money that I've spent on medicine for the next year it would rival my REI bill. What I've read over and over again is that you really need to bring a lot of medicine with because their stuff in Korea is just super different than ours. And my health is not something that I want to mess with.

In the next few days I have to finish unpacking, spend more time with family and friends, get everything else that I need from Target and whatnot, pack everything, and then get on the freaking plane! I also have a to-do list like six pages long with everything from my taxes to my dry cleaning. One thing is for sure: a week from now, all of this will be done and over with and I will be off on my adventure!