Things I need to get for my trip!

It's funny to think how people change and develop over the years. As a teen and in my early 20's I LOVED to shop. I don't think I could ever have had too many clothes and shoes and as my mothers daughter I could never resist a bargain! Well, now at 27 years old I get my thrills in different ways. But I can't lie, there is one purchase that I am just dying to make.....books! My amazon shopping cart has reached well over 300$! I am going to be swimming in books! As I am only alloted 100 lbs of luggage to last me for the next 27 months, I think I might need to narrow this list down!

Here is what I have so far:

• From the center of the earth: Stories out of the Peace Corps, by Geraldine Kennedy
• Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver, by Scott Stossel
• The Bold Experiment: JFK's Peace Corps, by Gerard T. Rice
• All you need is love: The Peace Corps and the spirit on the 1960's, by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford
• We wait for you: Unheard voices from Post-Communist Romania, by Annabell Townson
• The new Russians, by Hedrick Smith
• Moldova: A Romanian province under Russian Rule: Diplomatic history from the archives of the great powers, by Marcel Mitrasca
• The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the politics of culture, by Charles King
• Balkan Ghosts: A journey through history, by Robert Kaplan
• The ugly American, by Eugene Burdick
• The village of waiting, by George Packer

Here are a few other things I have thought to purchase as of today

• A swiss army knife
• gortex rain coat
• Winter hiking boots
• hiking sandals
• games/crossword puzzles/sudoku/scrabble/chess/cards
• eletronics converter
• gifts for my host families, traditional "American" things
• A scrap book of all my family and friends
• Maps/posters/other things to spice up the classroom
• Grammar book
• Dictionary
• Thesaurus
• Anthology of modern American literature and short stories
• School supplies!

Looks like I've got some shopping to do! Hopefully I can channel the spirit of whatever part of me used to love to shop and get a kick out of buying all this stuff! Let me know if you know of any good deals!