Okay... I've actually started some packing, I'm making my pins (more on those later), my good-bye party is in 4 days, I should be freaking out right now!!!!! But I'm not. Maybe it won't hit me that I'm leaving until the day that I leave and I am standing in the airport saying good-bye to my family- I'll burst into tears and realize the crazy decision I've made!!! Somehow I don't think so though. There are many emotions that I have when I think about going to Belgium for a year, and they all pretty much fit into three categories: (1) Insanely excited, (2) complacent and still-not-believing-that-it's-possible, (3) Worried. About what it changes... that I won't be able to fall asleep in my new house, that I will realize that taking Physics in French is actually impossible, that I will (God forbid :P) decide that I really really like America and that I never want to leave it again. But, I really do feel that no matter what happens I will be okay. This is because I am doing exactly what I want to be doing. This has been in the works for over a year, AND I'M READY TO SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE!!! I want to leave so much, and this in between-limbo time is difficult for me and for my family. I want to be here but my mind is already in Braine-l'Alleud Belgique. (Even though that's a bit difficult because I've never even been to Europe, so I can't very well really imagine what it's like there).
Anyway... something that has been taking up a fair amount of my time are the lovely pins that you see up top and below. These are for the Rotary Jackets. I don't have mine yet as it's on a plane from Georgia right now, but these are the pins that will go on it. Here's how it goes: every Rotary Exchange student either makes or buys pins that represent their country/region, and when we meet other exchange students we trade pins with each other, and by the end of the year everyone's jacket is covered with pins from kids from around the world :D. There are 184 Rotary exchange students in Belgium this year so I have to make A LOT of these babies. I have about 120 done so far, so I'm not disappointed.
That's all for now, maybe there will be a frantic post in a week or so saying how unprepared I am!!! :)
Anyway... something that has been taking up a fair amount of my time are the lovely pins that you see up top and below. These are for the Rotary Jackets. I don't have mine yet as it's on a plane from Georgia right now, but these are the pins that will go on it. Here's how it goes: every Rotary Exchange student either makes or buys pins that represent their country/region, and when we meet other exchange students we trade pins with each other, and by the end of the year everyone's jacket is covered with pins from kids from around the world :D. There are 184 Rotary exchange students in Belgium this year so I have to make A LOT of these babies. I have about 120 done so far, so I'm not disappointed.
That's all for now, maybe there will be a frantic post in a week or so saying how unprepared I am!!! :)
