The waiting's almost over

I dag er der kun 10 dage tilbage - 10! Ingen af os kan rigtigt forstå det og selvom jeg står med flybilletterne i hånden er det stadig uvirkeligt. Vi flyver d. 2. juli om morgenen og lander først i Tokyo om natten d. 3 dansk tid. Det bliver en virkelig, virkelig lang tur, og det er endda også min første tur uden for Europa - så det bliver nyt på alle måder med jetlag, kulturchok og sprogbarrierer. Men det bliver en kæmpe oplevelse. Alle dem, vi har snakket med, som selv har været der, har anbefalet Japan på det højeste og fortalt os, at det er som at komme til en helt anden planet. Når man får sådan noget at vide, er det svært ikke at glæde sig! Men inden vi tager afsted, er der lige en studenteruge for mit vedkommende, der skal overstås og en gymnasieklasse, der skal siges farvel til. Og så er det også afsted!

Today there's only 10 days to go. I don't think any of us can really get it into our brains that we're actually going and that it's so soon. We're departing from Denmark on the 2th of July and won't arrive in Tokyo until the next day early in the morning. It's gonna be a long journey and it's even my first trip outside Europe, so it's gonna be completely new for me in every way with the famous jetlag, a pretty severe culture shock and a language barrier that probably can't be avoided. But even with all those things, it's gonna be an amazing experience. All the people we've talked to about Japan have talked very fondly about it and even said that when arriving in Tokyo, you feel like you're on Mars. I don't know about you, but somebody tells me something like that, it makes me wanna go even more and it's hard not wanting to just go asap! But before we can leave and get too excited, I have to graduate first (my GCSE) and say a proper goodbye to the people who've been my classmates for the past three years. A new chapter is about to begin and sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye.