- Stare at the pile of clothes that has slowly turned into a mountain in your room
- Text all your friends at once to see what they are up too
- Go on Facebook
- End up in your cousin's bridesmaid's sister's "Wedding 2011" album
- Switch to Instagram
- Look at pictures of "nice cream" and yogurt bowls
- Wonder why these are so popular
- Consider making your own to post and get thousands of likes
- Open up your suitcase
- Coax your pet into the suitcase
- Snapchat a picture of your pet in the suitcase with the caption "Packing Done!" Or "He wants to come too!"
- Look around your room and try to decide what you need
- Consult at least 6 websites on what the climate is like in your travel destination
- Search the weather for the next week at your travel destination
- End up somehow looking at the rain patterns of western Ohio
- Start folding and rolling some clothes and putting them in your suitcase
- Spend 20 minutes trying to decide between two similar pairs of shoes
- End up putting them both in
- Try to be organized and plan outfits
- Come to the realization that strategy never works for you and pack five shirts for every pair of pants, skirt, shorts etc.
- Get a snack
- Or two
- Or make some brownies because you feel they are necessary
- Try to figure out a way to pack underwear neatly
- (Hint: there is no way)
- Snapchat a picture of your suitcase half full and send it to your friends with the scared face emoji
- Watch everyone's Snapchat story plus 6-8 of the "Discover" stories
- See this as the perfect time to practice your instrument of choice
- Realize this isn't the time after you figure out you can't play your song of choice
- Pack more clothes!
- "Accidentally" put on your party playlist
- Dance around for a half hour while pretending you are Beyoncé
- Put the last of your clothes into your suitcase
- See that it is overflowing
- Ignore that it is overflowing
- Try to zip it up
- When it doesn't zip up, sit on it
- Try to zip it up again
- Open your suitcase up and question why it won't zip
- Roll clothes even tighter and try to squish them down more
- Get rid of two out of the ten pairs of shoes you packed
- Sit on suitcase again
- Zip it halfway
- Adjust weight to the other side
- Zip it 3/4 of the way
- Try to push clothes into the middle of the suitcase, away from the zipper gap
- Pull zipper as hard as you can and finish zipping
- Lock your suitcase
- Test your lock combination 434219 times to make sure you can get back into your suitcase
- Relax because you are done.
A humorous and quirky look into the travels and day-to-day life of a bubbly and energetic 21 year-old journalism student. •AIFS Alumni Ambassador•DYWME'13•SMC'17
Thursday, January 28, 2016
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