Getting Started

Everything that could possibly be happening right now, seems to be happening right now, and I couldn't have less to do. I graduate from high school in three days as I am preparing to essentially enter high school for the very first time. So far I've managed to begin learning some of the language (which is Indonesian for those of you unaware that there is such a language), although that has been pretty rough so far; I've talked with the two Indonesian exchange students here in southeastern Wisconsin a few times; I've eaten at Bandung in Madison, which is an Indonesian restaurant and was delicious; my visa forms are nearly complete and my fiscal paperwork was just submitted; and I've just begun emailing my rather specific questions to Sam, who is a Rotary exchange student from my district currently in Indonesia. Additionally I've been talking to my boss about my summer work hours, I've been putting grad parties into my calender so as not to miss any, my own grad party is being planned, and never mind that I am actually graduating in three days! But despite all these things, I feel like I'm sitting around doing nothing a whole heck of a lot. With school winding down, there is hardly much that needs doing in class, and there is definitely no homework; it's almost makes the feeling of getting ready to go abroad seem less real. The more I do to get ready the harder for me it is to believe that I'll actually be going, but the more excited I am whenever I realize that yes! I actually will be halfway around the world in under three months. Until then, of course, there will be plenty of preparing. And until then, I must wait for the journey of my lifetime to begin.