Less than two weeks to go...

As the title states, there is less than two weeks left before I leave! It's a pretty cool thought, though somewhat terrifying. I always have this thing where impending events don't seem real to me until I'm very close to them. Most of the time right up until the day before I leave it'll just be like "oh at some point I'm leaving the country, but that's not for forever" and it really seems more fantasy than reality. Well, now things are getting a little more real. I finally bought my plane ticket, and surprisingly I got a really good deal on it even though I waited forever to buy it. I also realized that I only have 3 more shifts left at the SRC, which is just depressing.

Most importantly, though IFSA hasn't officially emailed me telling me who my host family is, today I received a message on facebook from a girl who is staying with my future family now, saying that they just found out I'd be living there. She has given me TONS of great info on the family. Turns out there are two host daughters, one is 16 and one is 18, a mom, a maid and a cat. They have been hosting girls for 5 years so she says they're really experienced and easy to live with. The home is in a really good neighborhood in the center of BA and I did some facebook stalking and looked at the pictures that current host girl (subsequently referred to as CHG) has up of the house. It looks really nice and although my bedroom is TINY it'll do. CHG said she considered herself one of the luckiest people on the program to have such a great family so I'm beyond excited. All of my fears of having a horrible overbearing host family have been assuaged. Now my only fear is that there's been some sort of mix-up and I'll wind up with a different, less perfect, family. CHG has also invited me to ask her any questions I have about the family or the program so if you guys have any ideas, let me know!

Anyway, with these things falling into place I'm finally starting to absorb the fact that I'm actually going. Time is flying and I'm terrified that I wont finish everything that I need to do before I leave or that I'll be in anyway unprepared.

I think the only thing to do is just hope for the best!