By rlubitz
Will everything even work?
Starting about two days ago, I realized that “oh, all of my technology can’t work in the UK” and thus ensued a mini panic attack because I prepare for nothing until the last minute. I know everything will be fine and I’ll be able to plug in with an adapter and I know they’re like $10 but that doesn’t stop me from imagining my laptop bursting into flames.
Just a few weeks ago my mom sent me an adapter contraption from the 1970s. Last time she used it was legitimately thirty years ago. If I had, indeed, plugged my phone in using those adapters, it would have burst into flames and my face would have been scalded off as a result of those flames and then I wouldn’t have been in any of my friend’s STUDY ABROAD YOLO 2012 Facebook albums because I would have looked like Darth Vader sans helmet.
Do you see how my mind advances on things like this?
But I WILL be getting an adapter this week and calling 19 different people while I’m in the store because that’s just how I work.
As a Gen Y-er, I expect a full meltdown for myself while trying to set up wifi that won’t work when I get there or forgetting to pack a charger.
Will people hate me because I like Coldplay?
Because I am essentially a giant music nerd, I have this fear that when I go over to London everyone is going to be so cooooool and go to all of these shows without me because I am so uncooooool. But, really though, will people hate me because I like Coldplay?
I’m thinking of keeping that love on the down low. I feel like it’s like someone coming over here and being like “GUYS HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEW JUSTIN BIEBER??” and I would never say anything like that ever, ever, ever but I feel like the Brits are just OVER Coldplay. Like, yes, plebian, their new song is great because it’s about starving children and lights.
Between now and then I intend on brushing up on new British music, with the exception being One Direction because no, and then trying to be a cool person while in London. Cool things I think I will get into in a week are: The Ramones, The Beatles in the psychedelic era, Doc Martens and unknown attractive royals because Prince Harry won't be there while I'm abroad *sobbing*.
So…the food thing…
I am a disgusting American who loves Taco Bell more than anyone I am currently friends with. In DC as of now, I have taken full on hour commutes to get to one with friends and have I ever regretted one moment? No.
It’s not like I’m going to a place who believes raw food is a delicacy but being from the South I just have a taste for non-gormet. Food that is basically barely food.
What I am looking forward to is: drinking tea by the gallons, eating donuts every time possible, Indian food with a side of historical guilt and getting yelled at for calling ‘biscuits’ cookies. Also, fish and chips. Fish and chips forever.
p.s. one of the things I am loving so much about being a part of GW’s Blog Abroad series is everyone who is already abroad being like “Today I got blessed by a Nepalese monk on Mt. Sinai and there was a rainbow” and I’m over here like “OHGAWD HOW AM I GOING TO LIVE WITH NO TACO BELL?!?”