The Basics

Just for everyone's information, here are all the basics to my trip:

I leave August 11th for a 2 week tour around Europe. This includes Rome, Florence and Venice (Italy), Lucerne (Switzerland), Paris (France) and London (England). Then on August 24th I fly to Vilnius (Lithuania), where for the next few days the Study Abroad group will be traveling around until we make it to Klaipeda. This is the city that I will be staying in/really really close to during the semester. I will return to the States on December 18th, the Saturday before Christmas. That's 4 months and a week... which equals a very long time.

There are about 650 students that attend LCC, 60% from Lithuania, and 40% International. There are about 35 Study Abroad students from North America. For the semester, I will either be staying in the dorm located in Klaipeda, which is a 30 minute walk to campus, or I will be staying right on campus. Either way, I will have 3 European roommates. Not necessarily from Lithuania, but they will be from somewhere in Europe.

During the semester we have two planned trips. There is a weekend trip to Riga (Latvia) and Tallinn (Estonia) September 23-26. Yep, that's right. My birthday weekend! And then in October we have a week trip to St. Petersburg and Moscow (Russia). I am sure I'll get myself to travel to other places during the semester. Some goals include: Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium. We'll see how that turns out.

Other fun facts include:
I will be 7 hours ahead of you. So don't plan to talk to me after 5pm. Talk about a time change...

The weather is going to be crazy. From September to December, the temperature ranges from 65-20 degrees. But with the added average humidity of 90-70%, I'm going to be hot, and then really really cold.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT004470

I will not have my cell phone. BUT, to make up for this very sad fact, I will be on Facebook (of course..) and Skype and AIM or whatever else I can think of. So don't think I'm fully disappearing for 4 months. I'm still here.. just not as often. And yes, I do promise to upload crazy amounts of pictures for all of you to see.

I will miss all of you tons <3