This may seem Mundane and Pointless to everyone else here, but its exciting to me. And isn’t that really the point of MPSIMS? I am on the verge of leaving my hovel to take my last two final exams. I will be done at 6PM local time. I am going to be hit by the twin trucks of Political Science and Russian. I am not sure I even care anymore how I do on the finals, I just want them to be over.
Tonight, I finish packing my bags and commence to get completely (but not too) sloshed at the bar. At 7AM tomorrow morning, the airport shuttle is picking me up to start my annual winter vacation.
I will then spend 11 hours on a flight to Frankfurt, Germany. Followed by 3 hour layover and another flight lasting 1.5 hours to Prague, Czech Republic. I will be in Prague for a few hours, then will board an overnight train to Poland, arriving 5AM on Tuesday the 21st.
On the 23rd, I take an overnight train to Budapest, Hungary, where I will spend the day of the 24th.
The night of the 24th (Yay! Christmas Eve!) I will spend all alone on a train chugging its way across the moonlit frozen landscape of Eastern Europe to Bucharest, Romania.
On the 27th, I take another overnight train to Sofia, Bulgaria.
On the 31st of December, I will take a morning flight back to Prague, where I will spend New Year’s Eve (WOO!).
From the 3rd of January to the 8th I will be attending the 8th International Youth Leadership Conference in Prague, staying at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
I have as yet no travel plans for the 8th and 9th of January, which I have free untill my return flight on the 10th.
On the 11th I return to classes, of which I will have missed the first 4 days.
I will provide periodic updates from sleazy internet cafes run by creepy Russian mobsters hawking cheap porn. I am almost all packed, and have my copy of Anna Karenina in hand (read War and Peace last year).