The Calm Before the Storm

The phrase "the calm before the storm" is what I can think of that best describes what my January is going to be like. Like the dead silence the precedes a tornado, January is going to be me, lying around my home reading and watching T.V. January is my calm. Because on January 31 the storm hits. It is on that day that I will fly from my home in Springfield, Missouri to Frankfurt, Germany. I will then spend the next six months in Germany studying. The first two months I will be in Bonn at the Goethe Institute. Then I move to Tuebingen where I will be attending the University there. My classes will be in German with German students. Not at all intimidating.
The fact that I am not at all prepared for this trip isn't bothering me. I only have three months of medication prescribed, I don't have power converters so that I can make my laptop work, I don't have anything packed, I don't even have a packing list. But I am not worried, I still have twenty-seven days to work things out. I did go and get an international drivers license and an international student ID card, and my mom got me a Germany guide book. That is plenty of preparation for now. No one actually starts boarding up their house until the storm is for sure going to hit, so I figure I don't need to start worrying about getting ready until my departure date is much closer. I have lots of things to do until then, there is a season of Gilmore Girls and two seasons of That 70's Show waiting to be watched.