Yesterday I realized that it's gonna take me another 2 years to finish my degree rather than a year and a half and that made me think that I can probably study abroad. I've emailed both my major's department chair and the office for global education and will hopefully get answers on Monday.

I was reading about going abroad on my school's website and reading about the different programs they have, and there's one in the Dominican Republic which I think is just awesome, the problem is I don't speak a lick of Spanish (although I will have a year's worth by the time I go abroad)...but if I can't go to the DR the question becomes where? My school also has programs in England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Spain and the Czech Republic, and you can go practically anywhere else as long as it's with an accredited school program, like one of my friends went to Australia last year and another is in France right now.

I think it would be awesome to go somewhere but I'm worried about going so far away...right now I go to school just over an hour away from home and less than 10 minutes from my pdoc so if anything ever goes wrong I have who I need close by...