So it’s a week until I start my travels with a nearly 7 hour flight from Newark to Lisbon, an hour layover, and then a 3 and a half hour flight to my final destination, Prague! 

However this isn’t my 1st study abroad experience, the summer of my junior year of high school, a friend and I spent a month in Florence, Italy where we studied at the Florence University of the Arts. 

I took classes like ‘Food and Culture’ and ‘Italian Language’, while seemingly impractical or even a ‘waste of credits’, the time I spent in Italy, immersed in the sights, sounds, and smells were what inspired me to do it all over again. But this time in a new location, with a new language, and new game plan. 

So the reason why we love visa problems (and of course I’m speaking sarcastically) is because visa problems keep you on your toes. It’s not bad enough that I have butterflies about the flight, or that I’m fully realizing that 6 months is a really long time, but complications with a visa application leave you wondering: maybe it was misplaced, maybe they don’t want me in the Czech Republic, they probably think I’m some sort of international spy, or worse, an international student who’s already paid tuition and airfare, trying to study in their country and gain a once in a lifetime experience. 😱

Again it’s week before I embark on a journey that will have a powerful impact on who I am as a new adult and shape the rest of my LIFE,I still don’t have my freaking visa. I know I’ll get it in time, I know everything will work out and be just fine, but there is always a small voice that mocks “but what if it doesn’t.” 

This stupid, small voice in my head is eating me alive, as the days count down, as more and more thing get packed up into luggage, as I say my final fair-wells to family and friends I won’t see until the summer.

Visa problems allows your imagination run wild with all the plausible reasons your visa is taking So. Damn. Long. 

So my 1st blog post was a rant, great