Gearing Up for Another Go

Sunday, 24 April, 2005 by Cheryl W. Colan

I have known for some time that I am returning to Australia and New Zealand with Scottsdale Community College’s Study Abroad program. This year, faculty member Rachel Woodburn will be in Maine working on her Masters degree in fine art photography, so the group needs a new technology specialist, and I have been asked to go as that faculty member.

I am excited and stressed all at once. My trip is paid for, but I have many more responsibilities. From this point on I intend to blog my preparations, including my small obsessions with finding the perfect bag, travel clothes and shoes, and also my procrastinations. And then there’s my large obsession, which was getting my mother to go with me again. But she’s been convinced, and her money’s paid, so there’s no drama there anymore. She will be an author here once again, so our loved ones can follow along on our second journey to the lovely land down under. I’ll be posting our itinerary again once it’s known.

New this year, I plan to offer the students a chance to post their own journal entries. If they are interested, you will see many more authors spring up, the about page will grow, and as a group I am guessing we will knock your socks off.

For now, I’ve got to go find my passport, which I apparantly never put away after returning last year, and prepare information on packing to give to the students at our first orientation meeting, coming up on Friday, April 29, 2005.