going to London! FINALLY!

I'm actually leaving today! wow! after all this waiting I'm finally going! I'm almost entirely packed, yep like most things I do, I won't be completely packed until the last second. While I am super excited I'm also really really nervous! I don't think it truly hit that I'm leaving until last night when I realized that I'm basically going to be going through freshman year all over again...my first thought was "what the hell is wrong with me, why am I going through this again"! Don't get me wrong, I did love freshman year, it was wonderful- but the first three weeks I don't really remember at all. It was all about finding your "best" friends....or just people to eat lunch with and trying to remember what classes you were taking and where on campus they were. That part of freshman year I don't have complete fondness for. Then I realized that it's NOT freshman year all over again. For one thing, I do know people...studying at LSE, on the Internship program as well as on other programs. For another, I know that I can do this! Freshman year at Clark was completely new...like nothing I had EVER done before. In this situation however,I've gone through it once very successfully and I know that I will be able to do it again.

So I finally came to the conclusion at 3 am while I was lying in bed unable to fall asleep, that while it's good to be a little nervous, I shouldn't be stressing so much- yeah the classes are going to be hard, yeah I'm living in a freshman dorm again (yuck), yeah I don't know that many people or the campus....but I'll figure it out and I'll be ok!