It Finally Sinks In....

It didn't happen when I received the e-mail informing me that I had been accepted into the program. Nor did it happen when the Beijing Center mailed me the student manuel. It didn't happen when my visa was processed, it didn't happen when I bought the tickets for my flight, it didn't happen when I purchased my textbooks, and it didn't even happen when I actually started packing earlier this week. 

Finally though, as I purchased a new pair of sneakers this afternoon at around roughly two o'clock, it suddenly hit my like a runaway freight train; I'm actually traveling overseas to spend a semester in China. 

In all honesty, I doubt that I can even come close to depict what I felt exactly at that fateful moment. To give a general idea though, it was more or a less a state of shock, for as my brother Chris described it later, "He just stopped talking."

Needless to say, I've gotten quite anxious since then. I'm not quite as bad as I was earlier today,and worrying isn't going to do me a single ounce of good. But still....well, how about let's just say that if I went and got an X-ray right now, I wouldn't be surprised to find a knot in my gut the size of a ripe grapefruit.