14. Buy and practice using a calling card.
13. Decide among your fellow travelers who will bring what travel version of a game, CDs, and books to read for fun. If you make sure everyone is bringing something different, than you have 40x the things available to you.
12. Visit a church that has been around longer than 50 years.
11. Check out language tapes from the library.
10. Rent movies set in locations you will visit.
9. Break in your shoes.
8. Try carrying your packed suitcase up three flights of stairs, around the block, and onto and off a city bus. Can't do it? You have packed too much.
7. Double-check that you haven't packed anything in your carry-on (backpack, purse, etc) that is against airline security regulations (knives, clippers, etc).
6. Commit to writing more letters and postcards than sending email while you are gone.
5. Read the international news section of a major newspaper three times a week.
4. Have a check-up with the doctor and dentist.
3. Remind friends and family to write to you...perhaps assign a city to each friend. (It's like camp, you will be so happy to arrive and have mail waiting for you.)
2. DO NOT PROCRASTINATE ON YOUR SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS.
1. Share your orientation information with your parents - they are dying to know all this stuff.