My Future Home!

"Hemer, Germany! Hemer, Germany!" I think I said those exact words more than 20 times yesterday (and this my friends, isn't a hyperbole). I got the email yesterday around 1 pm telling me that the implementing company in Germany, Experiment e.V., found a permanent placement for my year in Germany. Of course, as soon as I got the notification on my phone I shrieked so loudly that my 7 month-old cousin woke up.

I will be living in Hemer, Germany. I'm an hour or so away from Cologne, and an hour and a half from the Netherlands! I will have a 43 year-old mother (who, by our e-mail exchanges, speaks perfect ENGLISH, which can be good or bad), a 17 year-old brother who loves swimming, dancing, and hanging out with friends, a 14 year-old brother, and two cats! I'm a little apprehensive on the idea of living with cats but HEY! this whole year is to experience new things!

I will be attending the Friedrich Leopold Woeste Gymnasium:

I, however, am a little freaked out! Neither of my brothers attend this school so I will be going in by myself and simply become Fez from That '70s Show. Not that comforting but, again, this whole year is to experience new things.

As time goes by, and the countdown nears zero days, zero hours, and zero seconds, my anxiety and excitement become unbearable. I can't wait to assimilate my surroundings and to have a deluge of emotions flood me instantly and constantly as I embark on this once-in-a-blue-moon experience.