HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

I am leaving for Spain in six days!!  I haven't really started packing yet, and I am trying to figure out how I am going to put four months of necessities in a backpack and one suitcase... this could be interesting.  Im both excited and nervous, but really at this point it has not hit me that i'm going at all!

After reading Molly's blog I have decided that it is important for me to make new years resolutions about my semester abroad and really about the upcoming year.

So here they go...

For Europe Specifically:

1. Put myself on the spot, and speak Spanish as much as possible (honestly this one is probably going to be the toughest for me)
2. (a) Make friends with the Spaniards and try to be a party of their culture.
 (b) don't surround myself with only other Americans
3. Travel as many places as possible.
4. Experience new and different things that I've never tried before.
5. Not be seen as a stupid American tourist.

For the year in general:

1. Continue to learn about myself and life and continue to grow as a person.
2. Obtain an internship in D.C. for the summer.
3. Get into the R.H. Smith Business school
4. Be the best person I can be academically and socially (okay maybe not the besssst academically while i'm in spain because obviously there might be a few other things on my mind, but definitely for the rest of the year).

Those are my major goals and resolutions and I'm hoping to be able to stick to them.