Well hello everyone! This is sort of a trial-blog for now. My goal is to have a blog for this whole year of my travels, since I’ll be studying abroad in Quito, Ecuador and Sydney, Australia. I’m toying with doing a blog like Pastor Tony’s but you have to pay a monthly subscription and hey… let’s face it… I’m a poor college student. For the same monthly rate as the typepad blog, 8.95, I could purchase a bus ticket in Ecuador to the beach or two nights of salsa dancing. So for now I will be using the slightly-more-ghetto free site, haha.
Anyways…
I leave in twelve days. I can hardly believe it. The reality of being gone for a year really hit me yesterday when I said goodbye to my cousin and his fiancee whose wedding I will miss while I’m gone. Some days I feel like I wish I was there now. Other days, days like today, I want to chicken out and stay in good ‘ole Mechanicsburg forever. Of course, at the end of the day it’s just a bitter-sweet feeling. Probably many of you can relate to a time when you know what you are about to do will be an incredible life experience, but it’s tempting to avoid the risk and miss out. I know that in the end I will come home a different person but hopefully in a good way. Lindsay put it well one night when we were about to fall asleep on vacation. She thought out loud, “I think that when you come back at Christmas you will still be Andrea – but to like… the 10th power.” Haha. We’ll see.
1. Expect me to comment…. a lot…
2. You WILL be Andrea to the tenth power..
It will be nice to read your blogs…
Life’s not about materials, it’s about experiences. I’m not sure why that came to mind, but I do know you will have many of them. I’m so excited for you!…You have touched my heart with your sweet voice Andrea…I assume when you return, we will hold our word to hanging out and maybe you can teach me how to shack my mombo to a litlle musico espanol.