Let the journey begin...

Welcome to my first ever blog! Shocking, I know, "miss tech head" as my grandma calls me, to never have a blog before. I have been against these in the past but I feel like it is mandatory to do a blog while I study abroad, not only for my friends and family but also for myself. I will try to update this blog once a week. I will tell you all about the spectacular sights I am seeing, food I am eating and just awkward/funny experiences and stories I have to share! 


Only three more days till I hit the road for San Francisco, jet set on a plane with a pit stop in Frankfort and then land in Florence for nine months. The bags are packed, I am just working on the finishing touches. I will miss my family so much, they have no idea, but they know  (and I keep reminding myself) I will be back in a short nine months!! I am so nervous for this trip but I know that it is an opportunity of a lifetime and something that I would regret my whole life. I do not have anything tying me down so why not just go for it. I like to live life of the motto "live and learn" and I truly am living my life to the fullest and plan on learning valuable lessons that I will never forget. I expect myself to make a few mistakes, cuz lets keep it real, its "the destroyer" we are talking about! But the only way that I learn is by making these. 


I am so blessed to have this opportunity. It has always been something that has been in the back of my mind but seemed like such a reach. When I found out about this opportunity, I had to take it.  But I am so grateful for my parents who have given me the most support and love a girl could ever ask for; a grandma who gives me too much love sometimes; a sister always keeping it real and friends that I know will always be there for me, laughing with me and probably at me!


So, at the end of my first ever blog I would like to end on this quote from my currently favorite movie Eat Pray Love, 


"If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared - most of all - to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself....then truth will not be withheld from you." 


Can't wait to start updating you once I get to Firenze!!

My room got a little out of control while figuring out what to pack!