In one weeks time, I will be preparing myself to fly 3,000 miles across the ocean to spend 6 months in a place Ive only ever seen pictures of. Its crazy to think that instead of the mere hour it took me to get home whenever I wanted, well that luxury has been made a little more difficult with there being so many miles in between me and my bed.

Although the excitement has been so overpowering that there are days I want to simply pack my bags and get on a plane right this very second, there have also been moments crippled with anxiety where just the thought of stepping foot in the airport has made me want to lock myself into my room and take the key with me.

But something that mind boggles me to no end is the idea that unlike my usual thoughts, that the world definitely pauses everywhere else except for the life I am leading at this very moment, my friends and family will be going at their normal rate of life here, everyday in New York. Just think about that for a second, that as you sit on the computer reading this, that Ill be running for the other side of the world. About to embark on the adventure of my life.

In one weeks time, Ill be climbing my lone bottom onto an airplane that will take me 3000 miles away from not only my bed, but my entire family and all the friends I have not only at home but at school. But what keeps me going is the idea that in 6 months, Ill be stepping off an airplane with knowledge of the fact that there is a world far more superior and vast than what I believed there to be before I left the small world I am apart of now. This small village within the confines of New York State.

I can't say that Ill come back an entirely different person but what I do know that if I come back not have eaten my weight in delicious European cuisine, well I did not do their food any justice.