Update: Things to do when leaving your old life behind.

• Pack
• Make list of things to pack
• Make to-do list
• Make sure passport is valid for at least the next three years
• Get a visa for Viet Nam
• Find my undergrad degree
• Pay for class
• Book flight
• Notarized proof that I have a clean criminal record (Just mailed the forms today!)
• Buy a red messenger bag
• Get vaccinated for Hep A, Japanese Encephalitis, Typhoid
• Buy Advil to ease the headache caused when fainting after finding out much vaccinations cost when not covered by insurance
• Get Malaria pills so I’m not severely limited in my travels around SE Asia
• Fill anti-diarrheal medicine in case I can't find those handy curry colored M&M's that M. Floyd told me about
• Buy crazy amounts of underwear in case I can’t find a washer or washer woman within the first couple of weeks
• Find a place to store all my beloved books so they don’t develop mildew when I’m gone
• Clean my room so the next occupant doesn’t have a fit when they see under my bed
• Start donating clothes/items that I find in my room
• Make sure my friends throw me a bangin’ going away party
• Convert currency
• Make copies of passport, visa, resume and Bachelor’s degree
• Buy new laptop, Kindle, camera (if I can afford it.) If I can’t and anyone who happens to read my blog/can afford to buy one/wants to buy me one I want the Canon EOS Rebel
• Get horrible passport-size photos taken for visa
• Cancel credit cards that I don't use
• Buy DEET-filled bug spray
• Continue to study for CETLA course before I’m sent home after one month
• Find a hotel for my layover in Seoul
• Buy ForkChops for Lauren and I
• Arrive on time for my flight

Key:

Grey: Done

Black: Need to do

Blue: Work in progress
Magenta: Things I want

Red: Recently completed