Today I purchased 3 plane tickets. Why 3? 1 to get out to my new “home”, and 2 to return for weddings. With the tickets now purchased, and my time until departure now winding down quickly (23 days until I leave), the upcoming change seems more real than ever.

The last few weeks have included numerous hours spent on organizing countless items for school, including setting up my classes twice. Accidentally signing up for classes at the wrong campuses is not a good idea. In my 4 years of College, I believe I chose one elective…I didn’t even choose the class time. This new process is one that I came to detest quickly, especially trying to carefully craft my schedule around cross-country times. Luckily, this process is done and has made way for others, such as figuring out how I will pay for all of this (OSAP actually is as painful a process as I was led to believe). Life has seemed like quite the whirlwind, and keeping track of everything has been a lesson in itself.

One of the questions I have been asked quite frequently is “are you getting excited?” It is a tough one for me to answer. On the one hand, I have a new adventure ahead of me; a new place to live, new people to meet and experiences to carve. However, there is also the other side of the equation: I leave behind so many amazing and close friends, family and everything else my life has become familiar with in 26 years. For the greater part of my life, I never figured I would be able to move away like this. Only with the rapid change of my life over the last couple of years and conversations with those who have experienced similar have I been able to really believe that I’d survive just fine (of course, time will tell). So to really the answer of being “excited”, I have concluded that it’s more of a being at peace. I have found a deeper appreciation for that which has brought me to this point, and I look forward to the unwritten stories of my life.

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