Holy Crap-o...I Have One Month Left

I cannot believe it!!! Can you?!?! How has time flown by so quickly?!?!

I guess the fact that when you enjoy what you do it makes the time fly so much faster. I mean, looking back at my first post, did you EVER think I was getting out of California!? I sure as heck didn't! Last year was so painfully slow I wanted to hurt someone...this year just seemed to fly by in comparison!

The more I think about it, I guess the more “prepared” I am, but then really, am I ever going to be prepared for it? I didn't even know that I was going to be sad leaving California until the morning of my departure, so on some level, I think I won't feel the full effect of it until the day of; that scares me actually. I don't want to be hit with emotion all of a sudden and have it hurt more than I let it.

I'm currently trying to cram all the “to-do's” before I leave. On the list? Pancakes on the Rocks, fairy from Circular Quay to Manly Beach (passing the Opera House full on), playing cricket, going to a rugby game, going to the beach, and I'm sure a whole heap more!

My friends and I came to an epiphany today- that the Youth Year of Service program is kind of like a mature Junior Youth Program. Just as the JY Program is to center the energies of JY and give them something to focus on (like service) during a crucial time of life decision making, doing a year of service during your transitional years of high school to college is the same thing! It's centering all that energy and zeal that youth have and concentrating it on service, and focusing that scattered liveliness on something that focuses it on a life time of service to humanity. To have it concentrated is a gift.

A MONTH! HOLY CRAP!!