fears and tears.. ya actually not (maybe on the plane)

22.1.11
So I am leaving tomorrow. I was freaking out last week and very flustered last night at my going away party- I hesitated on a friend’s name that I am good friends with --and I am actually really good at names!  Thanks everybody for coming! I am so thankful to have so many friends and family that love me and are excited for this new part of my life. 

 ~there's all my notes. :)

Now I just want to get there. I want to start to settle in and try to fit in my new city of residence, Florence. I have a bunch of anxieties. I’m gonna miss church, friends, family, my grandma, and all the comforts I have here, and I am very scared that everyone will think I’m an annoying American, I will run out of money, which is definitely more than just a possibility, or it will go by so fast that I forgot to enjoy myself. Although I have all these fears, I am very excited to make new friends from America and Italy, take a million pictures (yea, probably more actually), add a new culture to my life, travel a gazillion places, and grow up a lot (well, I’m kind of excited about that).

My flight leaves really early tomorrow morning and I will be in Rome for 3 days taking a bunch of tours with my program of a bunch of people I don’t know (just like freshmen orientation all over again.. yayyy) haha and then traveling to my new apartment in Florence on Thursday where I will have 3 days of orientation before my classes start.
So next time I write I will be in the boot…which my mom made a pancake of this morning ps.
 

I really hope I can do this blog thing.. haha
Please keep me in your prayers!
Ciao!