Clock Counting

     As the days have been passing, I've have been counting down the days, counting up the hours, and checking items off my packing list. Today, I have officially finished packing, repacking, and packing again; aside from the few miscellaneous items missing from my backpack. Four years I have waited for tomorrow. Four months since I had been accepted into EIE. Twenty-Four hours until I leave for the airport.  

    I guess I'm still completely stressed from the midterms I hastily took this last week. Not to mention the hassle of packing. Most of you have probably heard this from me, but... if it were up to me, I'd pack a pair of underwear, a toothbrush, and most likely a book for my travels. Instead, I have managed to throw together two decent sized suitcases, a carry on, and my beloved blue-checkered  backpack. Who ever thought I'd make it this far?

          ~Making the millennium                                 CHECK

          ~Mount Horeb Elementary School 2004     CHECK

          ~Bat Mitzvah 2006                                           CHECK

          ~Warren Middle School 2007                        CHECK

          ~ Freshman year of High School 2008         CHECK      

          ~Olim '08                                                           CHECK

     Making it to EIE 2009? Nah, no way. It seems unreal to me as each year passes me by, as each opportunity I experience. It's just simply unreal. Tomorrow I board the flight for (what people tell me) is going to be the best experience of my life. Will it really be? I thought making the millenium was unreal. I thought FINALLY graduating the elementary school and being a middle schooler was not only completely ellusive, but extraordinary. I made it through my middle school years and my Bat Mizvah in no time, as well. Freshman year: new friends, new experience, unreal memories. Olim '08? I've waited seven years to be the eldest at camp. To me, it seems I have yet to graduate my Bonim (4th grade) summer. It is all just a hazy memory, an unreal dream, when I reflect on these past journeys I have undergone, seeing as I am now in the middle of my sophomore year of high school. EIE will be the time of my life! But, as I am boarding the flight I have dreamed of for four years, I can't help but anticipate the day I get off the very same flight 18 weeks later to see who I've become and what dream I have lived.