Two weeks since my last post – yikes, sorry about that!

In the last two weeks I’ve finished the school year with a wonderful group of students and said goodbyes to my colleagues and friends from the past three years. I left my school with my desk empty, my arms full of boxes, and my heart a jumble of emotions.

Now that my exams are graded, sealed, and stored, I’ve been spending most of my time figuring out everything I need to do because leaving for Malaysia on August 20. The ever-growing to-do list includes the following:

• Figure out bank account
• Figure out cell phone
• Get rid of old clothes
• Store winter clothes
• Buy new summer work clothes
• Get rid of “stuff”
• Sell car
• Pack things to save here
• Move out of apartment
• Store furniture
• Visit relatives
• Make money at summer job
• Pack things to go to Malaysia
• Go over teaching resources for my new school
• Learn new curriculum
• Try not to panic

Etc.

Confession: I like to make lists and systematically go through them and check off tasks. I do not like waiting until the last minute. There’s a lot of waiting until the last minute going on here, and it’s driving me up a wall. I can’t get rid of my cell phone until I sell my car, and I can’t sell my car until I leave my apartment, which I can’t do until I pack all my things into boxes that either go to Goodwill or into my car to move to storage (at my parents’ house and Mitch’s mum’s house), which I can’t do until the beginning of August because there’s so much more to do between now and then!

Try not to panic. Check.