I’m a mixed bag of emotions at the moment. I’m simultaneously excited and terrified. I feel impatient and ready to go, right now. I feel incredibly unprepared, even though I know I’m not. I feel so happy to be doing what I’ve wanted to do for 10 years. I feel so sad to be leaving the people I love behind, even if just for a year.
It’s a huge change, and it’s incredibly important to me.
I’ll be spending this weekend seeing so many of my favourite people. I’m going to eat, drink, sing and dance as much as I can with the little time I have left to hang out with my friends.
Next week I will be very busy getting everything ready to go. Packing away boxes for storage, packing suitcases, deciding what is really important enough to bring with me that I can’t live without for a year. I need to keep myself from buying things I should buy over there (looking at you, art supplies), and try to remember to buy the things that I can’t. Whatever time I have to spend not figuring out last minute banking, phone and medical business, I’ll use to brush up on the Japanese I should know and the English I’ll be teaching.
It has been a long process to get to this point.
Here’s to exciting new adventures!
行きましょう
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