A Little of Everything

I haven't posted in a few days sooo let's see what's been goin' on. First of all, tomorrows my birthday, so this isn't gonna be a long post. In any case, I'm turning 20 tomorrow. Meaningless. Nothing good happens. Besides the obvious perk of turning 21, which I obviously can't wait for, I've been to the Jersey Shore twice this summer (so far) and I'm dying to go to Atlantic City to gamble. And now, I still have 365 days to go and it's killing me. For the first time, I hate being younger than everyone in my year. Last weekend, I had an awesome time at the shore with my friends from the camp where I worked for the previous two summers (Kuhn Day Camp). We had a ton of fun...I just don't remember it. And then we spent Sunday recovering and watching the deluge of rain that closed the Schuykill and delayed our trip home, which didn't disappoint, cuz I'm pretty sure we saw a dead guy (my first) under a truck in a car accident. Sick weekend.
It kinda sucks that I'll be leaving for school so soon because I'm really gonna miss all those guys (and girls). Which brings me to my next topic.

I have 10--yep, just 10--days until I leave for school, a semester abroad in Hong Kong. I'm wicked excited. I have no doubt in my mind it will be the time of my life seeing China, studying abroad, and traveling Southeast Asia (and hopefully Australia!). This summer has been full of anticipation for next semester and now I can hardly believe how close it is. Like I said, it's bittersweet; it's obviously going to be an incredible experience, but I'm also leaving behind the comforts of unbelievable fun friends at home, a tight-knit group of friends at school (who are going abroad 2nd semester so I won't see them for so long), and just being back at SU. So yeah...wish me luck! I'll be posting on here from China, so you can all still hear from me once in a while :-)

Oh, and today was my last day of work for the summer. I spent the summer in Jean Claude Bradley's organic chemistry research lab at Drexel University, and it was a great experience for me. I was able to get great lab and research experience and had 2 great mentors in Dr. Bradley and the Post-Doc in his lab, Khalid Mirza. I'll be a big chem nerd and do a post on that sometime in the next week (I'll be out with camp friends for most of the week again!) but I just wanted to check in and say hi to everyone!