Believe it or not...we STILL haven't left yet.

As most of you probably will know, in less then 48 hours, I will be leaving  the lil', pleasant, city of Peoria, for the Up-tight, Milano, Italia for a year. This has been a LONG time coming and I now have mixed emotions about leaving :). In February, my parents came to me with this Idea, and I immediately rejected the Idea, stating I would do anything, as to not leave home. I was more than upset with the idea and began for the next 6 months to pray, that something would happen and my parents would change their minds, or monkeys would fall from the sky and all flights would be suspended forever! As my parents continued, to speak of nothing other than, Italy, and how wonderful it would be....and blah, blah, blah. But as you most of you will come to find out, my praying clearly did not work, and God had an entirely different plan for me, than the one I had developed for myself. So in preparing for our journey, we have spent months in government offices, we have gotten passports, studied Italian, taken full immersion Italian language lessons, cultural lessons, jumped threw every hoop imaginable because Italians are difficult people, and finally flew to L.A and received our Visa, and said goodbye's that made my heart crumble and soo much more. But my new line is "A presto allora" or "See you soon, then" :) So I am more than ready to begin this long awaited journey. I am no longer kicking and screaming, and my parents I'm sure are quite grateful for my compliance. So at 4 a.m Thursday morning, I will board a plane for almost 12 hours, only to arrive in my soon to be "temporary home". Fingers crossed, for hott Italian boys <3 But no really on this journey I hope to find myself, discover, who I really am and maybe this trip 5,859 miles away will truely bring me home...or maybe, I'll just go royaly insane and realize speaking improper english, and wearing sweatpants and flipflops, are where I belong....Guess we'll just have to see! :)

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