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Well, as you can imagine, packing up my life for twenty-seven months was a bit of a challenge. Thank you to my family for allowing me to make such a mess of the living room, as you can see in the first photo. And thanks, mom, for packing up a little more after I left.
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Eventually, I fit everything into two suitcases, a school-sized backpack, and a laptop bag. I was allowed to check eighty pounds, and I think I managed to pack about seventy pounds into my checked bags. But that means that I loaded my carry-ons with heavy books and electronics. My shoulders are paying for it.
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The books I packed:
The books I packed:
Yoga book
An ESL teaching book
A couple journals
Three Buddhist books
Pride and Prejudice
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
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The weirdest thing I packed:
The weirdest thing I packed:
A portable, metal fork/spoon/chopstick set (it's awesome!)
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What I wish I had packed:
What I wish I had packed:
My yoga mat
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One guy from my group packed his mat. He said that he had a made a commitment to himself to bring it. I tried to fit my mat it, but it just didn't work. Maybe I'm not as committed.
One guy from my group packed his mat. He said that he had a made a commitment to himself to bring it. I tried to fit my mat it, but it just didn't work. Maybe I'm not as committed.
Packing has been an interesting experience. It told me a lot about myself, primarily that I love, love, love my shoes and clothes! I'm more shallow than I thought! :)
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Love you all, Jennifer
Love you all, Jennifer
8 comments:
Loved reading the update! Please keep blogging so we can follow your journey!
Hope your flight goes well today.
Wow! I can't believe you were able to get all that stuff in your bags! This blog thing is pretty cool! Like N said, keep on blogging!
As I sit here and type this, you are somewhere over the sea on the way to China. Crazy!!! Hope you get plenty of sleep on the plane today!
You are amazing. keep blogging.
I don't see the huge, silver suitcase that I had to carry up many flights of stairs in Paris for you :) I guess it would have easily busted the 80 lbs limit.
Have fun and keep up the blog.
Don't worry about your shoes, Jen. Connie and I are loving them for you. ;)
I pulled two of those suitcases a short distance and am glad that it isn't me that has to carry around the rest...what I learned about myself is that I could not fit 27 months of my life into 80 pounds...I am SO proud of you and so sad that I don't wear the same size shoe!!!!! Love ya Jen
Hey Hey Hey!!!! Loving your shoes does not and I repeat does not make you shallow...lol anways this thing is great continue to blog and just have fun Jen!!!
Always Dee ^_~ Mwah!!!
What! you've left for China already when did that happen? :-)
Awesome can't wait for more to come.
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