Officially I leave 3 weeks from today, but one of those weeks will be in Chicago, so only two weeks left at home. These past few months have been going so slow but also so slow. It's weird to think that just one month ago I graduated high school. Currently I work every single day of the week, somedays up to 15 hours. I have two jobs in order to pay for my exchange and it has made me exhausted. On my off nights/mornings I am scrambling to spend time with the friends I have left in the USA and preparing for exchange. I've been collecting gifts for my host siblings and for other exchange students who've asked for things. Just 2 days ago I traveled around 1.5 hours to an outlet mall with my best friend and I bought 8 bags of new clothing all for exchange! I'm in the process of designing all my pins for exchange. I think I'll bring district/Connecticut pins as well as a personalized button that a Brazilian exchange student helped me design (te amo Julia <3).
Since exchange is so close, I've started to feel different about it. It's weird cause I've worked with Rotary for four years and followed my best friends through exchange, thinking I knew everything about the program, but now it's all starting to change again. I spent two weeks in California with my sisters and aunt, but by the time I'd come home, three of my best friends and 3/4 of our exchange students had all gone home to their countries. Coming home, I just wanted to see my friends again and hang out with them, but they were all hours away from me. As confident as I was before, I knew these were the types of feelings I'd probably get on exchange. As of now, it's just a waiting game. 3 weeks exactly, August 15 at 18:00, I'll be on a plane headed for Amsterdam to start my exchange!
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