Preparing for Takeoff

As I begin to pack my clothes and sunscreen and bugspray and soap and whatnot, I'm starting to get very anxious about my trip! Even with the research I've done and the all the wonderful (experienced) people whom I've talked with, I still have hardly any idea what to expect. However, I've learned to keep myself from expecting anything, and in doing so, I find it is very easy to adjust to just about anything. Still, I always grow very anxious in the last two or three days before I depart. I think mostly because I'm somewhat impatient and so, therefore, I really hate waiting for my summer adventure to start. Anyway, today  I stumbled across this quote on the cover of my Global Initiatives folder and I think it's fitting for me at the moment:

"It is only in journeying for the world's sake, even when the world bores and sickens and scares us to death, that little by little we begin to come alive." 

Two more days in the states :)