13 days....is this reality?

13 days. Equally meaning 312 hours, or 18,720 minutes, until I am officially stepping onto a plane to Copenhagen, Denmark. Although the first few days may feel like a normal vacation, this trip is a little different. Rather than just a 2 week vacation, I will be living and learning in this new world for 4 months. I feel like I have been talking about this for months now and it is starting to become reality. All of my fellow classmates at Elon are heading back to school tomorrow to begin winter term, and here I am counting the days until my world becomes something completely different than I have ever known.

At first thought, I wish I was back in Elon, NC, with my great friends at a school that I love so dearly. Yet the more I think about what is to come, I know that I am taking the opportunity to do something that I will never have another chance to do. So bring on the shopping and packing and whatever else I need to get done before my once-in-a-lifetime trip finally begins!!