All the Rotary orientations helped to prepare me, so one might think that would be an obvious fact. But it wasn't until there was a possibility that I might not be going that it really began to hit me: I so want to go, and I'm going to soon.
On August 1st, 2009, I'm leaving Faribault, Minnesota and taking a really long plane ride (not so excited about that) to Helsinki. At least, that's what's planned. Right now, my visa is a little behind schedule. But I know I'll get there. I want to so bad, some of my friends think I'm crazy. And I've survived all the other bumps in the road (Faroe Islands - Finland country switch, the battle for Finnsurance) so this visa thing isn't going to prevent me from moving on with my future in Kemi, and with my host parents, Arja and Artu, and my host sister Aino. So excited :D
Is it weird I'm excited for winter? Good thing I didn't pick Brazil :P
Hopefully I don't bore everyone too much with this whole blog thing. I'll be sure to update it as soon as I have more to talk about.
Thanks go out to Linda Hindal for helping with the visa process, and of course to Rotary, for giving me this oppurtunity.
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