The 'Day Before' Jitters

It took a while, but they've finally kicked in!

19/09/2011

Today I finially managed to stuff everything I wanted to take into..well..something.

I now have: one Carry-on that weighs 9.8kg (allowed weight: 10kg) that has clothes for about 4 days in it and some documents I will be needing plus my camera; one check-in suitcase weighing in at 19.9kg (allowed weight: 20kg) which has the rest of my clothes in it and another pair of shoes (praise goes to Ghislaine for providing this suitcase, because if it weren't for her I'd be stuck with my extremely awesome but also extremely heavy manly suitcase that wouldn't have been able to fit all this stuff in and still weigh under 20kg); one laptop bag housing a laptop, mouse, adapter, 2.5" external harddrive, most of my chargers and a Nintendo DS I hope no one will bitch about and one Amazon.com XL box that holds all the books I need for teaching (paper is fucking heavy so there was simply no way to bring it in my suitcase) plus some winter clothes, weighing 9.9kg (weight for the €58,30 class: 5-10kg. Anything over 10kg will make shipping cost €105).

So in the end I didn't have to leave anything behind, but it did take quite a lot of relocating, weighing, relocating again, taking out of packaging, etc. Hopefully I can leave a bunch of stuff behind when I leave (I'm definitely leaving the books for the kids, Sojung (the coordinator at IWO) told me they have their own little library, so it'd be cool to have my books in there so they can pick them up and look at the pretty pictures after I'm long gone) because I'm planning on buying a lot of useless shit when I have the chance (would you expect anything less of me?).

Anyway, I'm currently sitting here in front of my computer contemplating the time at which I'm going to bed. I should go to bed early so I can wake up early and get sleepy early tomorrow so I can sleep on the plane, but if I wake up early, what am I going to do until I leave?
Stress the fuck out, that's what.
But I guess I'll just watch some Family Outing and head off.