Butterflies

One week before I leave and every time I think of it I have 1,000 butterflies in my tummy! I am excited- YES- but also nervous! I am getting more and more organized now which is calming my nerves slightly. I was talking with my best friend's step-mom today, and she was helping me go through my checklist of important things to do. She lives in London and reassured me that if I need- they are a much shorter plane ride away than the States. Brianne and I finished booking another hostel, this one is in Milano-- http://www.ostellolacordata.com/services.htm. Her and I have been texting almost non-stop talking about who is bringing what and how! It is so nice to have a friend coming with me. So if all of these things are settled, all of my I's are dotted, why am I still so nervous?

It feels like I am about to go on The Hulk (for anyone who has ridden this, you can understand my feeling). The Hulk is a roller coaster in Islands of Adventure in Orlando and not much like any other you have ridden. You are strapped in, feeling secure and excited when all of the sudden the coaster starts to shake and you are blasted out of this tunnel onto this extraordinary ride. At the end of it all, all you want to do it ride it over and over and every time getting that same feeling. It is a familiar feeling. This is the feeling I have and I hope to have after my adventure. There is fright right now, true, but at the end of this ride, I KNOW I will want to go over and over and over...

These butterflies can stay, they are familiar and good!