"Radical"

I just had a pretty good weekend. I got to go to Great Escape in Lake George, NY. I stayed at the Great Escape Lodge which is just across the street. I spent the weekend with some pretty amazing people. I spent all day Saturday at the park itself. After getting a pretty "radical" burn, I still had fun. I wish weekends like I just had would never end. I am excited to be home and able to talk to my friends again. There is one that I am the most happiest to talk to :)

I got home today after school and knew that I had to do something rather than sit around. I remembered that before I left on Friday, I had gotten the supplies that I needed to make my "swaps" for my exchange. After glue piece after piece, I decided that I was finished for the night. I still needed to paint them. I can't release what they are going to look like until I have finished all 50 of them. Sorry :) I don't want to ruin the surprise.

I was sitting at my laptop earlier today, thinking about next year. Wednesday it will be about 9 weeks until I leave my friends and family, sit on a plane with a few of my exchange friends :), arrive in Taberg, Sweden, meet my host family, and start my new life. I remember telling my friends that it wasn't for another 4 months. Everyday that passes, another day is closer that I leave.  I have never been so excited for something, especially something like this. I knew that I would do something like this in my lifetime, but I didn't except to meet amazing people before I left. A small piece of me wants to stay because of the people and what they mean to me, but I know that they will be here when I come back in 2014. 

I sat down and listened to "So Far Away" by Avenged Sevenfold and thought for awhile. The artist singing the song is my friends and family, while I am the one they are singing about. I smiled for awhile, then I realized that I have to do this. I have been dreaming about this for years and it was going to come true. No-one could stop me or the dream from happening