I'm Ready To Go!

As I lay in my room listening to the rain fall, I feel like kaleidoscope of emotions in churning in my body; it's like I'm pregnant.


It is finally here--the trip I have been waiting, wishing and dreaming about since I high school.


I am going to Norway....NORGE...Europe. The place where my family came from.


I have waited for so long for this moment and it is finally here.


Now for those who are reading this and don't fully understand my situation, I will be spending the next six weeks in Norway studying at the University of Olso's International Summer School (which we call Oslo ISS or just ISS).  It is my first time ever across the pond that is the great Atlantic ocean.  Nervous? Scared? Happy? Excited? Worried? Yes.


Some of my fellow Scandinavian Majors (yes, that is a real major) are all doing this program so it is one massive Midwest invasion.  I hope Norway is ready for us!


I am all packed!  It was quite a process but I got all of my clothes and whatnot lying happily in two small suite cases and my brothers overtly large backpack.


It is so weird to thing that I am about to go on a amazing new adventure...an adventure that people say will change your life.  But what if it doesn't?  As my friend Sam (jokingly) said at my going away party, what if Norway is not what you think it is?  What if you end up hating it? I do have a tendency to over romanticize things (i.e. college) so what if I come up and am still the same person I was when I left?


.....Well, let's just hope that for once I can be normal, follow the herd and come back a better man!


I have decided to end these posts with song lyrics that relate to the blog's post.  Why? I don't really know...I was just listening to the song posted below and I realized it was oddly relatable to my current situation.  I guess it gives my blog production value or something.

So tell me right now
You think you’re ready for it
I wanna know
Why you got me going
So let’s go
We’ll take it out of here
I think I’m ready to leave
I’m ready to live

~ Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Head), Panic! At the Disco

Thanks for reading!  I hope to update this blog pretty regularly so check back in a few days.

Takk,

Lukas