So...
I found a place (for real this time) where I will go to be a working student in Germany. It looks like a nice place with nice people. Their website is www.cavallis.com
I will be working six days a week doing everything besides mucking stalls, all day, in exchange for lessons. I'm going to be living in the apartment above the barn.

I am super excited, of course, but now that it is actually starting to seem real to me, I cannot help but feel scared, sad, and homesick. I just want to pack up all of my friends and family with me. You guys mean so much to me that it's been hard to think about leaving everybody behind. I know in all reality that I really won't be gone that long but right now it feels like it will be eons. I also worry that something bad will happen when I'm gone. Hopefully I'm wrong. Luckily, the people I'm working for said that I could leave whenever I want.

I know it seems silly to even think about quitting halfway through with something this big just to be back home. But I've only ever been out of the country once. For a week. And I don't think, as a matter of fact, that I've been away from home for more than a week. So you see, this really is a stressful thing for me to think about. I'm just throwing myself into it, but I guess it's for the best.

Two months left at home.
Here goes nothing.


P.S. I forgot to mention: my riding instructor doesn't speak english... :O Ahhhhhhhhhh!