Hello from Kentucky! Welcome and be very careful here, it WILL interfer with your studies, your sleep, your showering, etc. This is the best forum I have ever been a member of, though not really a member of very many. The people on here are about the nicest in the world. What is crazy, we are all so very different, but amazingly so much alike, more alike than different I thinks.
Enjoy your travels now, as once you do have "critters" it gets more complicated leaving them at home, so enjoy them thru us for a while, you have lots of time. Have the very Best New Year, see you here in chickville. HenZ