Closing time

So the time has come. I've packed my clothes, gotten all my documents, booked the flights, and now I'm about to start my journey. My flight leaves tomorrow but I'm currently seeing my brother at college one more time before I leave. I'll admit I am a bit scared to leave the comfort of my home, family, and friends for a year, but the excitement I am feeling over powers that fear. Things I'm really looking forward to is meeting my famiy (especially my sister because I've never had a sister before!), finally meeting my classmates who I've been chatting with on facebook for the past couple months, and going to Europe for the first time in my life. I was placed in a host family with a mother, father, older brother, and older sister (yay big families!). I have had a wonderful time this summer making lifetime friends on my service trip and spending my last days with my friends and family. I couldn't wish for a better way to start my year abroad. This quote I think really summarizes how this year will change me.

   "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living"
                      -Mary Ritter Beard


I can't wait for my journey to begin!


  -Lauren