Spring Break is here!

Seven weeks has passed so far this semester and spring break is already here. In the first half of this semester, I have three A's and I'm not sure what my grade in Sports Writing is yet. This is the last semester of my college career and I am already feeling depressed at the fact that the real world is slowly creeping up on me. I am nervous about what is going to happen to me when I graduate, but excited for the challenge. I am scared because I care about what I want to do. As time has worn on, I am beginning to thoroughly enjoy writing more than ever. When I went abroad last spring, I wrote about my thoughts on a journal. It was very relaxing and a lot of fun. I have not read any of my entries yet, but when I do read them, I will look back and think about those days.
Speaking of traveling, I am leaving for Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow morning. I will be going with 12 people in my dorm. We leave from UNH at around 9:30 a.m. and we should get to Logan Airport in Boston at 11 a.m. Our flight leaves at 1:45 p.m. and we will arrive at John F. Kennedy Airport at 3:23 p.m. There will be an extremely long layover, but it will give us time to get to know each other. Our flight leaves from JFK at 1 a.m. and we arrive at Port of Spain in Trinidad at 7 a.m. We will be there from Sunday morning to Saturday night. We are going to be in Trinidad because we are going for a program called "Visit a Smithie". We are visiting Nicky Lee who lived in Smith for four years and graduated from UNH in 2008. For the whole week, Nicky and her family is going to show us around the city and we are also going to volunteer for two days. I believe we will be assisting people on soiling, so that will be cool to learn how to do that. It is supposed to be over 90 degrees Fahrenheit there, so we are all going to be really hot. The U.S. dollar is really strong in Trinidad, so we don't have to worry about spending a lot of money. We will doing a lot of sight-seeing which is something I love to do when I am traveling. Plus, we have one week to see the whole city, so it will be a lot of fun.
I am going on the trip because as a writer, going to a developing country will help me see what the world is really like. I want to be a diverse writer. I have only been to countries that are doing well economically. I have always wanted to go to poor countries and I will get my chance to do it. I am also going to try to take better photography, so we will all give each other tips about how to take pictures while we are there. This is also a great excuse to leave New Hampshire since I have been here for nearly two months straight. God I am pumped! I will not write on the blog while I am there. I will make another post on Monday, March 22nd and write all about it, since I'm not going to be watching sports anyway.