I will be travelling to St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia this summer. My flight leaves on May 21st and returns on August 1st. Since I have less than a month before my departure as of this posting, I will be blogging rather sporadically about the inanities of paperwork, etc., and likely my feelings and emotions involved with the trip.
Consider it more of a diary than a blog.
I went to Japan in the summer of 2004. One of the things we were required to do was keep a daily journal of our experiences, which would be checked every few weeks. At the time, it felt disturbingly like homework on what was supposed to be a fun trip, and so I was pretty terrible about it. I started out with great excitement, as I usually do, writing at length about how excited I was or how many hours were left in the plane flight. But, as is also customary for me, I began to grow more and more uninterested in the whole process as the weeks went on. I wrote down nonsense just to say that I had written something, and after our final check, I didn't write anything at all. I figured I would remember. After all, these were the most exciting days of my life thus far; how could I forget? But I did forget, and I would give anything to go back in time and kick myself in the butt and make myself write down every last bit of that wonderful trip.
Although the circumstances are certainly different this time, I don't want this experience to turn out like that one. I want to remember everything. And so, I will hopefully have learned from my 14-year-old self's mistake and post at least once per day once I am there.
We'll see how it goes.
-Erica
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