Operation pack up my life

My flights are booked and I start college in exactly four weeks. In four weeks I will officially be a student of Cincinnati Christian University. I will be doing an early week class on psychology to start off with. I can honestly tell you that I have never been more excited and terrified at the same time. So I have been working flat out with the thinking that i must make enough money to keep me up for the next four years, this is ambitious I know. So today i gathered up all the crap in my house and am selling it in a car boot sale next Saturday (if you are a potential buyer of my belongings, please avoid how I used the word "crap" there)

Anyway, so I guess in like four weeks I am going to get the biggest culture shock of my whole life. Even though I have been there before, I am basically moving my life. I'm moving from my little country home into the big city. But I can honestly tell you that this is where I am supposed to go. No one expected this of me, No one expected quiet and overlooked Vikki Smyth to get up, leave Northern Ireland and go to Uni in America. I guess its the perfect example of breaking people's expectations of yourself. C'mon if you are reading this, went to school with me, didnt know me too well, you would have expected me to go to one of the Universities closest to my home. To be honest i would've expected that too. But Im going on THEE biggest adventure of my life and I cannot wait to experience it!

Change

Change is inevitable. Sometimes we love it , sometimes we hate it. In about a month I will be trying to pack my entire life in Northern Ireland into two bags which are not to exceed 23 kilograms. You have literally no idea how excited I am, but you also have no idea of how terrified I am. I have my college place, my four year student visa and my plane ticket is booked. The next is actually getting there. I have literally no idea when Ill be back to Northern Ireland once I leave (booking a one way ticket is pretty exciting, I encourage you to try it out at least once in your life). But allow me to let you in on something, I know for sure that this is where I am meant to go, and Ive known this since I was just 16 and went on my first trip to America. There is something there, something that I can still not quite put my finger on. But I know that God has something in store for me there. And I am so excited to find out what that is.

REVAMP! BLOG CHANGE!

Ok so I fully acknowledge that my list has majorly failed , this totally supports the fact that I cannot stick with anything! so many of you may know that sadly I did not get out to the mighty U S of A this summer, but something pretty exciting is happening instead! In August I will fly out to Cincinnati where I will be attending CCU! I will (hopefully) be out there for 4 years until I finish my course! So I figured , there is possibly going to be a change to the blog, I really want to document this new adventure that I will be going on! I'm super nervous and all the usual thoughts about going anywhere are running through my brain "what if they don't like me?", "what if I get home sick?" etc etc. Its going to be super tough for everyone to know how I am getting on and I would like this to be accessible for them! I am so excited for what might happen in the next four years, I am really about to go on a serious adventure and am so blessed to get this opportunity! :)