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To Do List Before I Leave
New Glasses and Prescription Sunglasses
Birth Control
Deal with Taxes
Figure out Money
Figure out Phone
Plan after program travel
Eat good Mexican and Chinese food
Watch a LOTR extended edition marathon
Watch a Hobbit Marathon
Hang out with everyone
Pet my cats
Trip Fund
Tonight was the Christmas party for my local Republican club, and they were kind enough to pass around the hat for my trip. I now have an extra $273 to add to my travel fund! I've been a member of this club since I was 16, and I'll be sending them either bi-weekly or monthly reports from Morocco.
Getting Ready-- Vaccinations
Part of getting ready to go abroad is to make sure that you're healthy enough and that you've had all your vaccinations. So off I went to my GP's office to get my physical and to figure out what vaccines I need.
Except, funny story, I forgot a few things when I made the appointment. The first thing I forgot was that I hadn't actually made Dr. G my GP. After moving past my pediatrician, which I did late thanks to pneumonia, I just kind of used my school's clinic for most of my medical needs i.e. birth control and flu shots. I'd seen Dr. G when I had a weird virus thing in my ribs, but I haven't been doing my regular checkups or anything. So there was that, but luckily the doctor's office just kind of assumed that I was going to be a regular patient when I went to see Dr. G for the weird virus.
The other thing the I forgot was that I didn't have a copy of my shot record and I hadn't had one forwarded to Dr. G.
With all of that pleasantly forgotten, I showed up to my appointment, medical forms to be filled out in hand. Long story short, Dr. G's office called my pediatrician's office and had the shot record faxed over. At which point I found out that I'd already had all of the required vaccines, but that Dr. G's office doesn't provide any of the recommended vaccines that I needed. So I asked them, where does one go to get Rabies and Typhoid vaccines. At first I was told that I'd need to go to a vet's office to get the rabies vaccines-- and wouldn't that have been a fantastic story? But one of the nurses recommended Passport Health for the Typhoid and it turns out they do rabies too. So I made an appointment with Passport Health.
If I was travelling on my own, and not as part of a program, Passport Health would probably have been super helpful. My appointment with the lady lasted over an hour because she went through a lot more basic health info than I really needed, having already read it all in the pre-departure materials from SIT. We went through my shot record, and determined that I should also get a polio booster, since Israel and Jordan both recommend them.
Heads-up: if you need to get three vaccines in one day-- don't. I got polio and typhoid in one arm and rabies in the other and I almost couldn't move my arms later that day.
Heads-up 2: Rabies vaccines are really expensive. 3 shots, $300 a pop. Still, its cheaper than a funeral.
I go in for my second rabies shot tomorrow, hopefully I feel less shitty after this one, as I have an Arabic test and a stats final that afternoon.
A map of the relative terror threat levels. As you can see, Morocco only scores a little a higher than the US.
Travel List
Places I'd like to go after my program is over: Amman, Jordan: get to meet up with other people from my school studying abroad, can I get a hell yeah?
Israel: Specifically Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, and Haifa
Barcelona, Spain: I miss it, okay? I want to go back for a bit
Lyon, France: Pick up with Ame
Italy: Florence, Rome and Venice
Belgium: Visit some friends there
Greece: Athens, I'd like to see the Parthenon again and I'd love to visit one of the places I went with my family
That's it for now. More planning to happen later
Here's the link to the page for my particular program, in case anyone was curious
Hello and Introduction
Hi everyone! Welcome to my travel blog. Its going to start focused on my Study Abroad trip, but I plan to maintain it through any subsequent traveling I might do. I'm starting it now so y'all can see the planning stages and I have a place to rant about the massive amounts of paperwork studying abroad takes. Feel free to ask me any questions about my study abroad experiences.