Today was the first day of classes.  Fifteen minutes into my first class my phone went off.  It's new so I don't know how to make it silent. I quickly press a random button that I thought would end the call. The phone went silent. Thank God. Oh but wait. "Hello? Dilly? Hello?".... I had put my phone on speaker. Laughter broke out.  Everyone in my class had just met my mother.... 

          Since the first day of classes was somewhat bittersweet, to put it nicely, I tried to focus on all of the places I dream of traveling to once I get through this academic boot camp.

Trip 1: Santorini (where Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was filmed).  

I want to go here, and while wearing big sunglasses and linen pants, sit on the edge of a dock with my man and eat raspberries.