Passport and visa: check. Stack of euros: check. Suitcases packed, complete with maps and guides to Madrid. iPhone charged and ready with a Spanish language playlist and Daniel by Elton John. Oh yeah.
I think I'm all set! Tomorrow Dad and I will go to the good ol' airport and check in together, because we're actually both flying USAir around the same time. Pretty cool, I think. Then I'm headed to Philadelphia... some time reeeeally early Wednesday morning I'll arrive in Madrid, get picked up by a trusty CEA staff member, and will head to a hotel and orientation. Yay! I just got my schedule for the rest of the week, and I'm moving into a comfy apartment on Friday. And "everything will be fine."
Mostly I'm amazed at how incredibly faithful God is. This has been a two year process of preparations, road blocks, tests of faith, and unexpected successes. The Spanish Consulate changed their policy this November just for students from Tennessee, just in time for me to get my visa. Just the fact that I somehow got enough funds for this trip, even though my Union scholarships don't apply, is evidence of how fully dependent I am on God for everything about this trip. I found out on the day that I had to pay the invoice for this program that I won an essay contest and would have just the right amount of money in my account. Individual professors and Financial Aid peeps pulled just the right strings and made miracles happen (did I mention that Union rocks?). So here I go... Stepping out in trust al más allá... out into the great beyond.
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