I just finished packing. Actually, I already finished packing yesterday, but I had to unpack a lot of stuff again, because my baggage was far too heavy. Now all my stuff has still over 25 kilos and I really hope that I won't have to pay anything.... I've been pretty busy the last couple of days. On Monday I had 2 oral exams in Graz, then I had to bring all my stuff out of my apartment (since I'll rent it out for the next 8 months). It was quite exhausting to schlepp all my stuff from the 3rd floor down to the first floor, because it was so unbearably hot!! However, I had really good helpers (my aunt and uncle), so we were quite fast and managed to bring everything out of the apartment in next to no time. Then we went to Kirchschlag, my hometown, to unload all my stuff. I spent Tuesday and Wednesday at home in Kirchschlag and already started to prepare everything for my 2 months in the States and I also had to study for my 2 last exams (which were today, Thursday). (Unfortunately, I didn't manage to study anything until Thursday morning, since my cat, Pepi, got ill and I had to care for him. My parents weren't at home, because they are on vacation in Greece right now, so I was pretty busy doing everything by myself.) Today in the morning I went to Graz again to take my exams there and afterwards, I went to Vienna with a friend of mine. I'll stay at her apartment in Vienna tonight and she'll drop me off at the airport tomorrow morning. In the afternoon I met another friend of mine and we went shopping (I bought a "Sacher-Torte" for my family in NJ... I'm sure they'll like it ; ) I just hope that it'll be edible after the long flight tomorrow) Now I'm already getting excited and I'm really looking forward to seeing my kids in NJ again tomorrow. I just hope that I'll arrive safely in Newark, because I'm going by Polish Airlines and I'm not quite sure if this is such a good airline. However, I'm sure that the time in the plane will go by quickly and then I'll finally see my family in NJ again.