Magic Bands and Passport

Today I received two very exciting and important pieces of mail! If you read the title, I bet you can guess what they were...that's right, our Magic Bands and my passport! My Magic Band is green and my mom's is pink (:

Today also marked 4 weeks until check-in. That's a scary and exciting thought. I started a bit of packing yesterday but there's not much I can pack right now.

Less Than a Month

As of yesterday, July 8th, it is now under a month until I move to Florida! I have felt completely terrified the last week of moving. It's a lot different going from 100 days until moving to just over 30 days. I'm über nervous but I still don't regret accepting my offer. I was extremely nervous to start college and I ended up loving the independence. I know this journey is going to be hard at first, but I know I can do it. It helps knowing there's thousands of other people my age going through the same thing as I am that understand how hard it is; there will always be someone I can talk with.

Since I'm now under a month until leaving, that means I get to do what I'm dreading most: packing. I'm honestly such a procrastinator when it comes to packing, I'll probably end up starting the week before I leave and have a few panic episodes along the way... haha oops!

I should also be getting New Hire paperwork soon, so that's exciting! A lot of August 4th arrivals have completed theirs and some September arrivals said they have received theirs as well, yet I haven't heard of any people with my arrival date that have received paperwork. Ah well, it will come soon!

7 Weeks!

My countdown until check-in is now under 50 days! That's so crazy! Time is really starting to fly by now, I remember when I had 118 days left! It won't be long until I have to start packing. I'm going to apply for a passport this afternoon, so hopefully that's approved and comes in before I leave! I was talking to one of my good friends from the DCP Facebook page and we realized we only live 3 hours away from each other, so we're planning to meet up soon! I also leave for my last vacation this year on Thursday, so that's exciting! I'll be so sad when it's over, it's like my second home up there!

Post - Course Registration

I just finished registering for my classes! Let me tell you, it was CRAZY. The webpage opened up right at 00:00 (midnight), only we were faced with a problem...the dreaded orange circle. What is this orange circle, you may ask? It's the loading screen, and it stayed like that for a good 10 minutes. We overloaded the site! We all went a little crazy...

 

That's just a SMALL portion of what went on. And is still going on, on the DCP Facebook page! It's CRAZY. 

 So, what did I get?? Drum roll, please...

 

YAY! I got the two classes I wanted!! I knew I had to take Exploring Marketing, but I decided to try for Exploring Leadership as well on a spur of the moment decision this morning. Luckily, you can drop the Exploring Series classes without penalty if need be. I'm also in classes with my some of my roommates! I have a couple in one and a couple in the other! How cool! 

After all of the worrying about what classes we were all going to get, I think I can safely say we're all now feeling like this:

Progress!

There's been a couple more steps leading towards my DCP this week! On Wednesday I received this lovely email:

Yay for finally getting more emails!

And today we FINALLY bought plane tickets! I checked the airline website this morning and discovered the flight I wanted had filled up and all of the prices went up. I had a small panic attack and immediately called my mom and told her we need to get tickets today! So after some bickering and one mental breakdown later (on my part), our flights are booked! Unfortunately the airline we picked did not offer any non-stop flight options, so we have a connecting flight in Chicago. I haven't been to Chicago in a few years, so I'll be excited to stop there, even if it's just in the airport for an hour!

My mom and I have also decided that her, my brother, and I need to invest in a passport for the each of us. My dad does international travel with his job and if there were ever a reason for us to need to get to him, a passport would certainly be helpful. Plus, we really don't want to take my social security card to Florida!