1 post from June 2008

Well, I leave in one month and 2 weeks.  Its absolutely insane.  I have a host family.  Emilie, my host sister, is going to Seattle for her exchange in about 2 weeks.  She is so incredibly nice.  I haven't talked to anyone but her, but I have seen pictures of my host family and they all seem so nice.  I definitely need to work on my French because no one besides my host sister speaks English.  That is going to be hard, but maybe, hopefully, it will make me pick up the language better. 

My host family is taking me to Paris on August 1st and 2nd.  I am so excited.  I still have so much I have to do before I leave.  Its so stressful, but I'm so excited this is finally coming true.  I have been working on going on my exchange since September, and now its actually happening.  I'm still not going to believe probably until I'm in Belgium, but oh well.  Nobody thought I would actually do it.  I even doubted myself so much.  After all the hard work though, I depart from Boston on July 29th and arrive in Belgium on the 30th.  I leave to come home on August 30th.  My family is in Ath, Belgium.  Which is a half hour from Mons and an hour from Brussels.  I have been researching like crazy.  I'm not sure what to think, it all feels so surreal.

I didn't think it would be hard to leave, but I've started thinking about it lately and it is going to be.  I am still so excited to go.  It is just going to be hard for me to leave a lot of people.  I bet you I'll even miss my job.  Which has been absolutely amazing about me going.  (Grand opening June 21st, everyone go!!  Middletown best buy...next to home depot)  I've met a ton of people at work that are great!