This weekend I was able to visit my home campus in order to see my friends before I leave. It was a great weekend, filled with a lot of laughs, hugs, and good memories. Despite the lack of the constant nagging need to do homework, it felt like the next day I would be heading off to class with the rest of them and that nothing had changed. In reality, I answered the question "When are you leaving?" too many times, ate food that probably increased my cholesterol, stressed about all the packing I need to do, and nearly started bawling when I returned home. Another typical weekend at college.
Now, with the days remaining reduced to single digits, I really need to start getting my act together. From final errands to run to cramming some last minute German, it's the final countdown. With another close friend leaving tomorrow for Rome, it's really starting to hit. There are so many little things to do and to consider in order to prepare me for the moments that follow after I step through the airport security and am entirely on my own.
However, I am feeling a little more confident about this, as my mental image of this future semester is slowly being sketched out, after going through the pre-departure online orientation, joining the Facebook group for my program, and receiving information about my homestay family.
The latter got me excited, as I will be with a typical German family of four, with a mother, a father and two sons, one seventeen and the other three. I'm thrilled to live with kids, since as an only child I never really had the sibling experience. They live in the area of Neukölln in Berlin, which used to be a Turkish and Arabic community, but is now apparently a rich blend of all ages and cultures.
Things are starting to come together and before you know it, I will be in Berlin.
8 days.
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