heh

My parents totally think it's more respectable and legit for me to go to England for SRS BZNS Schooling than to hop across the pond for spring break. Heh. On a whim I checked prices for a round-trip ticket from New Orleans to Heathrow for Tulane's spring break -- Mardi Gras week, this year -- and I might be able to stay with Chicago, who's doing study abroad at UCL right now, so it's totally feasible. The subject came up while I was telling my mother how much I wanted to do this summer program, but I should probably take Greek at the UW instead. I want to do something fun and exciting for spring break while I'm an undergrad, that's what being an undergrad is for. And it's a bit odd going to school in a city that other college students visit for spring break; Mardi Gras in New Orleans is something that is, apparently, on a lot of people's bucket lists, but that one I got covered twice over and going on round three.

Anyway. It would be really cool to go abroad over break, but buying an international plane ticket for a week's stay in another continent two weeks away is probably too impulsive for me. (And I'd have to have my mother mail my passport to me, but that's not particularly difficult. I just got my passport renewed last summer, it's all shiny and new and OH SO PATRIOTIC also it needs STAMPS, I haven't traveled internationally since 2008, although I have done some extensive domestic travel. Anyway. I'm probably not that impulsive. Probably. Surprise federal grant gave me a reimbursement for some of fall's tuition, and my Japanese grandparents sent me some more money, so it's not completely stupid on a financial level, just not particularly well-advised...)

I know. It could be worse. I could be impulsively planning to go to Mexico or Egypt or somewhere for spring break.