Beginning of Blogging

As I scramble to get things ready for my not-so-distant departure for lands across the ocean, I decided to go ahead and begin my blog. I began one earlier, but decided to just start again because I didn't the the title of the last one. Yes, I'm that picky.

As August 21 comes closer and closer, I really can't wrap my brain around the fact that I am going to be living in a different country this fall. I am, in many areas of my life, rather stuck in my ways...one of those ways being the fact that I am still very attached to my home, my high school group of friends, and of course my life at Wake. New things don't come easily for me. I also have intense F.O.M.O. (Fear Of Missing Out) on things while I'm in France. Which, when I really think about it, is ridiculous because I am going to be in France and missing out on that would be unbelievably worse. However, I'm still scared.

Needless to say, studying abroad will give me the opportunity to branch out, gain confidence and independence, and learn more about myself. I'll be living to something...all that needs to be discovered is what that something is. I know that where I go, I go with God; His presence will, in time, still my fears and uncertainties about the coming months.

"...but the life he lives, he lives to God." Romans 6: 10b