Night before...

So it's my last night in the USA for at least 6 months.

Tomorrow morning at 10am I am boarding a plane to Mexico City, Mexico, Mexico. I will then take a bus an hour and a half (ish) into the mountains to my final destination, the city of Toluca. Toluca.

I'll be here in Toluca for one year (well, 2 semesters, January to July then Sept - Dec) working on my masters degree in ESL (English as a Second Language). I'll be taking classes to learn more about how language works and how to teach people how to speak English AND I will be teaching classes at the University!

I'm really excited about starting my new adventure... on the other hand I've been a nervous wreck for at least the last two weeks. I've been tense and cranky and tired. I'm going to miss all my friends so much. My best friends have all been in my life for years and years so its crazy to think that, starting tomorrow, they won't be right around the corner or a text message away.

I know it will be okay, I mean, this is 2010, not 1910. Facebook, gmail, and skype are FREE and calling international with a calling card really isn't that expensive. I think I wouldn't be having as much of a freak out if my friends weren't having freak outs. Several of them are taking my leaving really hard and its making me so sad to make them so sad. I know time goes so quickly (I can't believe I'm about to leave... I decided this over a year ago and now here I am the night before) so I know I'll be back before I know it with all the great stories and memories!

Even though I am in a pretty bad mood today I am mostly excited. I am finally meeting my goal of living in a foreign country and learning about a new culture. I am going to improve my Spanish. I am going to have adventures. My students are awesome and several of them are my facebook friends and keep asking me when I will be there. (A group of the undergraduate English students from Toluca came in to Texas last summer and I taught a class for them.) It makes me so happy everytime one of them messages me and demands to know when I will be there. =D

Anyway. I gotta go! I have to print my tickets, finish getting my crap in order and... well... sleep. One last American sleep. Zzzz

I'll write more tomorrow on the plane!

ADIOS!