This entire idea of going to London for 6 months hasn\u2019t really set in yet. I\u2019ve been planning the trip for between 3 and 4 months and the entire time it has always been this abstract idea. Like, \u201coh yeah, I\u2019ll go to London and see the museums and stuff\u201d and, \u201cI\u2019ll go travel to different countries and meet foreign people.\u201d But it has always been very not real. Why? Because I have literally never traveled in my entire life. I\u2019ve been to Atlanta 3 times and some BFE town in Tennessee, but beyond that the extent of my travels has been between Ft. Lauderdale and Atlanta. Because of that, traveling doesn\u2019t seem like a real thing that can actually happen to me, so I\u2019m in for an adventure come 3:45pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m feeling an interesting mixture of nostalgia, excitement, and nerves. Coming first to mind is the typical, \u201cI\u2019m going to miss ______ so much.\u201d Particularly my best friend, my mom, and my cat and this sounds bad but I honestly don\u2019t know how to live my life without them. My cat is with me every morning and night, period \u2013 no exceptions. My mom is a huge support in my life and my best friend James is literally the only person I talk to most of the day every day so thinking about life without them is super weird.<\/p>\n
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Onto the more real, deep stuff. I tried writing this a few days back being super eloquent and deep and philosophical, but honestly if I write like that I\u2019ll never want to sit down and write anything. SO.. What I\u2019m most nervous about is the fact that RT as he is right now will not exist the same way next week. I know that most of my perceptions will be challenged in ways that I never knew possible. I will be lost and not know what to do and faced with these weird challenges I didn\u2019t know existed and I will be overwhelmed and all of that is going to make me grow real quick.<\/p>\n
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Last little point is on having nothing to do. For the first time ever I will have pretty much nothing that I NEED to do. No sports, no rehearsals, no job, no family to take care of, no animals to take care of, and fewer classes than I have ever taken. Although there will be so much to do in London, I\u2019m really excited to spend some time doing nothing and being truly alone. I\u2019ll be in a wonderful strange land where I know no one on the entire continent (for the first week or so, at least) and get to really dig into who I am. Should be grand.<\/p>\n
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