COUNTDOWN!?!?!?!?!?

First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!! I hope you have all enjoyed this holiday season. I have, and sharing our Christmas traditions with my host sister Kristin have been fun. Next week we will be celebrating her Christmas and trying to make some of her Ukrainian traditional dishes.

COUNTDOWN?!?!?!
I have calculated how many days till September because I will most likely be leaving till then, and it is 215 days!!!!!!!!!!! OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I realized this I danced around in the dining room! I first started thinking, hey 4 months till I win my scholarship! which is really exciting as well. Today I went onto AFS.ORG, another exchange program and was looking to see if they had any new blogs for Italy, and there was!!! This one girl went to Italy in the spring semester in 2008. I was reading her posts and getting more and more exciting. After reading many, I decided to look at her pictures and WOW!!!! They were amazing!!!! She looked like she was having so much fun!! and I can not wait till it is my turn!!! 215 days!!!!!! I feel like I'm 5 and Christmas is a few days away!!!!

Although I am super excited I know its going to be hard. Packing up and leaving my family for a year with no real in person contact is going to be tough, but by the time i leave its like I'm going to have to do it again. But I know I will return home and visit my new home :)

Another exciting point: I'm not going to Italy next year, I'm going to Italy THIS year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!