The Story Behind it All

        So some people ask why am I doing this. Well the story is that I have always wanted to experience more than my little town in California. As a kid I had learned from my mom lots about  England and the history behind it. I heard of all these amazing places and amazing people it made me want to learn more about other places. I took to world history very easily in high school, so much I corrected my teacher because she got something wrong.
        Now the next question is why Italy? I originally was going to try and get a scholarship and go to Germany, but they wouldn’t let me come back and graduate on stage. So I began to try and look for a different way to get to Europe. I asked one of my foreign friends what organization she went through and she told me hers and the other main one in my area. I went home and talked to my parents about everything and to make sure this was something my family and I wanted to do.
        I contacted the organization and they said that they had hardly had any Americans wanting to go. She told me to put in an application and I had to pick a country, well three. In my price range it was Italy or Spain. I was more interested in Italy and the food is amazing. So my family and I waited and she got back to me and said okay your going to on September 1st. Wait…I hadn’t had a family yet and they already told me when I was leaving. It was getting close to my leaving date and I was stressing out because I had no home yet and well thats a little important.
        The day I got the email about my family I was ecstatic. I remember being in my art class with my teacher, who was just as excited as I was, and I asked her if I could use her computer. I looked up my family’s house on Google maps and studied their profiles. It was the most exciting thing and I was so happy.
        The day I left was the most nerve racking because, well, I was leaving the States to go live in a different country. A country I had never been to and a continent that I had only dreamed of going to.

        I’m so thankful that my parents let me go on this journey. Without them I couldn’t have thought about going on this trip. They have let me live my dreams knowing that if they didn’t it wouldn’t be the same. Thinking back on it now though, nothing is the same. I have blossomed into a newer me and a better person I think.