What Do I Pack?!

Holaaaaaa

 

With less than 4 days before I leave for America, I figured today was the day to start packing. If you know me at all you will be familiar with my packing procedure. If not, here is how it usually goes.



1.  Realise I should be packing, but instead head to the fridge.
2. Procrastinate for hours until I have very limited time to pack.
3. Suddenly everything turns into a mad rush.
4. Chuck/stuff/squish/push/squeeze/throw as many items of clothing into my bag as possible.
5. Leave feeling very disorganised, knowing I have forgotten something. (usually my pyjamas)

Now you would think that after 9 years at boarding school and travelling up and down the country for hockey nearly every weekend I would have become a more efficient packer...no, nope, not at all, incorrect. Far from it actually.

 

However, this time round I thought I needed to get my game together and alter my packing method...giving myself a whole 4 days, hmmm.

 

Seeing as I am travelling across the world, approximately 3154 miles (that's 5076 kilometres for you Americans!), and staying there for the best part of 4 years, my parents have sacrificed one of their suitcases so I can have two. Which 'should' give me enough room...

I started my packing by going through ALL my clothes and making two huge piles, one pile consisting of what I wanted to take to America, the other, ultimately, for the bin. I had to repeat this initial process multiple times before I had a suitable amount of clothing in the 'America' pile.

Lets just say I kind of under-estimated how difficult packing was going to be. I need clothes to cover all seasons and weathers, from boiling temperatures to heaps of snow, blustering winds and so on. It is SO hard to prioritise clothing. Sympathy, PLEASE?!

 

I found myself going through old clothes thinking "What if I need it for..." and "I could wear it with...", even though I haven't worn it in years! This resulted in me having to be extremely disciplined and brutally throwing away clothes I wanted to take with me. Wahhhh :'(

I figured I'm not going to die without all my clothes and shops DO exist in the USA! However, this did not stop steps 2. and 4. from my usual process occurring. I am still no where near finished packing due to my procrastinating. My procrastination included: eating, sleeping, candy crush, YouTube, eating, tweeting, singing, eating, dancing, YouTube, TV - Location Location Location ;) and more eating. I even went for a run!? And then ate again...

Anyway, I have finally managed to zip up one of my suitcases after about 10 minutes of sweating, pushing, pulling and squishing it to fit. My other suitcase however, probably won't get closed until 5.00am Tuesday morning!

I'm slightly nervous that I will forget something really important...passport Hannah, passport!! I am also pretty sad that I can't take particular things with me which carry sentimental value because they are too big/heavy or won't fit.

But believe me, I am taking as much as possible haha!

I'm pretty sure step 5. will also remain the same. I guarantee I will leave home feeling super disorganised and knowing me, I probably will forget my pyjamas!!
 

 

Anywayyyyy this is already longer than I planned! So I will stop rambling on! In the future some of my blogs will be similar to this, some will be a picture or even just a video, so there will be a good variation :)

That's all for this blog folks! Hope you enjoyed it! Let me know if you did :) Even though packing is a right BORE, it has increased my excitement levels by 100% because it is all feeling so real now!

 

YAY!

 

Ciao,

 

Hannah x

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