The last hoop...

I've finally got everything together to apply for my visa—the last hoop! All I have to do is send in my paperwork! Yay!

I've also got my loans together for next year. It amazes me how easily they give away money. I'm very happy about that, though, because I'm taking all I can get.

Things are coming along nicely. Eventually I have to get rid of some of my stuff, put some of it in storage, and buy some more appropriate traveling things. However, for right now I have to study some Russian and take my class during the second half of the summer. I've actually gotten a native speaker who's studying abroad here to be my conversation partner, and then a graduate student from the Russian Department is tutoring me in grammar. My economics class is going to be very difficult, especially working 30-40 hours a week at the bank and all the Russian stuff. Oh well, it will get done, even if my grade in econ isn't the greatest.

It's weird to think that this is the last class I'll take that the University of Michigan. After Russia I'll graduate, so it's really the end of an era. However, it's the beginning of a new, different, Russian one...

Ohhh, I'm so impatient! 65 days to go!