So it is less than 24 hours before I embark on the greatest adventure of my life thus far, and I am getting more excited by the minute. I'm a little nervous about the flight across the great Atlantic Ocean (particularly because it will be happening at night when there is nothing to see but black...) but hopefully I'll be able to catch some z's on the way over. Half of everything I own is packed into less than 80 measly pounds of luggage, and it amazes me that I'll be able to live for nine weeks out of essentially two suitcases...wouldn't it be wonderful if everything was so compact and simple?
The hardest thing this last week has been saying my goodbyes to my friends, family members, and boyfriend, but I have to remember that it's just a see you later. I mean, really, it's only nine weeks - it'll FLY by! I'm starting to get really excited about all of the things I will see over the course of the next two months, including the Swiss Alps and the Matterhorn, Paris, Italy, the beaches of Spain, Germany...I am equally excited about meeting all of my fellow interns in the U of M REU program and those from other countries. I hate being an ignorant American who doesn't really know all that much about other cultures (mostly due to the fact that my exposure to any country besides the US has been Canada). I am looking forward to meeting all the people I can and learning about where they are from.
There's nothing I can to now except bide my time and wait. I must say, I am relieved in a way to be leaving tomorrow because I have been sitting on my butt for the better part of five weeks (besides for a wonderful trip to Disney World for one of those weeks). I'm not sure how much more laziness I could handle.
It's hard to believe that the next time I write, it will be from my room in the hostel at CERN...so until then, my friends.
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