preperation.

yup its 71 days away but i still gotta prep. i have my backpack--not the money to pay for it though...--and i have my prefecture placement, but i don't have any idea how i'm going to spend these next 71 days. ok thats not entirely true, but i'm totally overwhelmed by all the things that i want to do, the people i want to spend time with and all the things that i'll have to say good bye to. i'm probably being overly dramatic but leaving for an entire year it seems as if the world here in portland is going to pass me by and everything thing will change. if and when i return i won't have any of these people here for friendship, they will have graduated, moved and started the next stages of their lives. i feel like i need to reach out and hold on, never letting go. this is my preperation. gaining the strength to say good bye to this life that we call college.