Thought for finals and flying away

This week has been a bit of a struggle. It is finals week here in the states and my big blue bag, which contains half of my life, has vanished. I was feeling a bit down and was going to post a ho hum/ snarky post about how much fun filling out a visa application has been (sense sarcasm). Then I read this quote from the advisor in Palma 

‎    "If you’re at your wits end, or think you are, which amounts to the same thing, if you’re dazed and confused by the noise of civilisation and the haste to get someplace where you find you have nothing to do, if busyness has swamped your brain with facts and science blinded you with gimmickry, then follow me to an island where calm reigns, where the men never hurry and the women never age, and even the sun and the moon move at a more leisurely pace" - like this begins ‘La Illa de la Calma’, the famous celebration of Mallorca by the modernist painter and writer Santiago Rusiñol

Honestly this is exactly what I needed to hear and I am excited to get started working this summer so that i am ready to slow down and relax. I am ready to fly away to an island in the sea (yes the song island in the sea is playing in my head as I write this)

For more of my study abroad experience and other bits of life here in the states before I go, please check out my sister blog mallorcanyear.wordpress.com.