That day

4. I had never felt that anxious before.  There were only few hours until I would be on my way to the biggest adventure of my life so far. I had really mixed feelings, one moment I was so excited and couldn't wait, but only few minutes later I would be crying my eyes off and begging my mom not to let me go. Finally the moment everybody had been waiting for was here.

The airport was full of people heading to vacations, business trips and some people saying goodbyes to their love ones. I was one of those who had to leave and say goodbye to everything that was important to me. Now looking back to that moment, I could honestly say that if I have had an option to stay home with my family and friends I would have probably done that, because I was so scared of the future. I had never been away from my family more than couple weeks and now I was going to spend 11 months with total strangers.

After crying for hours I was finally ready to stop worrying and start enjoying this wonderful opportunity again. At the end of the day not everyone got the chance to spend a year abroad as an exchange student.  My life was going to change for good and I knew that it wasn't going to be easy, but totally worth it.