November 3, 2006

This morning I finished packing up my bags, and found out that everything that I need to take home does indeed fit into my two suitcases and my backpack. I am going to have to leave several things behind, but those are things I had planned to leave behind/throw out: my blanket, my pillows, an extra towel, some school supplies, and, well, that's pretty much it. The rest all fits in my bags and is all stuff I want to take home. :) When I got everything all packed in, I looked around my room and thought about how weird it was that I could fit a whole semester of my life into two suitcases. Back home I take two car-fulls of stuff to my dorm... but I guess I don't really pack it as neatly when I do that, and also I have a civic, so you can't really fit too much in there anyway. :-P But yeah, I've realized that when you do a lot of traveling, you start to realize what you need, and what you really don't need. In a college dorm, two suitcases is all you really need. And when you're just traveling somewhere for a week or two (like New Zealand), one suitcase is plenty.

I jogged around the lake again this evening. No rain this time, but it was mostly cloudy still. It really smells good after a rain... the increased humidity in the air and the smell of moist vegetation and soil is something I had forgotten about. It makes the landscape seem a lot less bland when you can smell it too.