So close...TOO close...

24 days and counting. Literally- I have a clock on my facebook wall.

It's so surreal...July flew by and I put everything off until August thinking I'd have enough time to work on shit. Then August comes and it's like "oh shit Kat, you leave in three weeks...two weeks...two days have you tied everything up in New York? Packed everything for Prague and beyond?"

I still technically haven't gotten my visa yet. I should be soon but just not yet. Which sucks but apparently everything is going to be okay? As long as I can go, yea, sure, everything will be okay.

I need to brush up on my Czech. It's hard because when I come home from work I feel terribly lazy and not wanting to do anything and then I realize how truly fucked I am going to be when it comes to wandering the streets and I don't have a clue about where I'll actually be.

At least I know how to say "Do you speak english?" and "I don't understand Czech" as well as the standard informal and formal greetings. I figure these will get me through enough until I get language prep and THEN we'll see how it goes.

But it's actually happening. Of course, I leave every year around this time, but it'll be different because it'll be somewhere where I'll have limited communications (maybe) and I'll be constantly doing things.

And I am hoping to take a lot of pictures. I would have liked a better, newer camera but Sean is right, I should get one when I DON'T have money I need to save. I'm thinking I might even take my tripod so I can really tighten my shit, plus take some kick ass pics to turn into post cards to send to all you folks out there.

Oh yeah, you know what'd be even cooler? If you all sent me a post card as well.

See, I want to start this website, kind of like post secret, except not so secret. I like collecting post cards that people have sent me. I'd like to put those up on a website. Want to start contributing? Send post cards or airmail envelopes VIA:

Katherine Lap
Worldlearning
Jana Zajice 7
170 00 Praha 7
Czech Republic

Send me something QUITE compelling and your card could end up on my site! Hooray?

I should probably get to packing some day. When will that be? Who the fuck really knows.

Na Shledanou!