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My travel blog.
I have just under a week before I hop on a plane and travel halfway around the world to Israel, where I will be living, studying, and volunteering for 9 months on a gap year/ college leadership program called NATIV. As you can probably imagine, I'm exTREMELY excited and am probably going to spend the next six days in a glass case of emotion while I wait to leave.
Of course, besides being excited, I'm also nervous. I mean, I'm going to a foreign country that I've never been to and can hardly even speak the language for 9 months with a bunch of people I've never met (well, I've met some of them, and I'm really close to a few, but still), I think it would be crazy NOT to be nervous. And I'm a little sad. I'm leaving behind all I've really known my entire life, my amazing family and friends, and I won't see anyone for NINE WHOLE MONTHS which is a really long time, especially when you're only 18. Like, I said goodbye to my best friend yesterday and I thought I was going to lose it.
But I think the overwhelmingly dominant emotion I have right now is EXTREME EXCITEMENT AND HAPPINESS BECAUSE I AM GOING TO ISRAEL ON A TRIP I HEARD WAS AMAZING WITH A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO SEEM REALLY COOL AND IT IS GOING TO BE THE EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME.
I'm not really sure what I was trying to achieve in this post but I think I got my excitement across accurately with that. I mean, there's not really much more for me to say considering I haven't left yet. I still have six days and 70% of my packing until I can start my journey, and when it starts I'll write about as much as I can as often as I can here.
But it's just the wait.
Six days.
I can do this. I can wait just six more days.
