Preparations

The two questions I am getting the most from people as I tell them about my move back to England are... "Are you packed and ready to go" and "Are you excited"? In my preparations for this move I keep on thinking back to our move from England to the U.S. I remember all the little things that my parents had to so such as the endless calls to the embassy to get the work permit situated, and the week we kids spent with our grandparents while our parents packed everything up, just to name a few. These memories are making me feel like there is so much more that I should be doing and that I am not at all prepared enough. Whenever I get anxious about it though I have to keep in mind that we were a family bring all of our things with us, and we did not move with the assistance of an agency. We also did not have the added bonus that I have now of having duel citizenship. It's hard to keep those things in mind but when I think about the things I need to do I am doing ok and feel pretty good about my how ready I am.

The second question of whether I am excited or not is alot harder to answer though. I have a great mix of emotions which I think is only natural. I mean seriously, I am moving away from my amazing family and friends, and also from the life I've known for the last 16 years. That's not easy to do at all but I remind myself that it's really not a whole lot different to my moving to another state or something, and no matter what I did I was going to have to make a life for myself meeting new people and learning and experiencing new things. It's an exciting and scary thing but I'm ecstatic that I get to start this new chapter of my life in my birth country, the country that I have wanted to go back to pretty much since I left it, or at least since the novelty of being in a new country wore off. So to answer the question I am very excited to be moving to England but that excitement comes with a mix of sadness, fear, and anxiety that I think is only normal and I will soon get over it! Well bye bye for now dear readers my next entry will probably be done in the great U.K.!!!