Four Days

I have officially completed the half way point in my time abroad. It happened a few days ago, actually. It's hard to believe that my time here in Lithuania is winding down. I have about four more days here and then I'll be off to Germany for the rest of the summer.

It's crazy how quickly time passes--we get comfortable with how things are and then before we know it, time is gone because we've settled ourselves in. I've loved being here, but I'm ready to move on right now before I get too comfortable. My time here has been amazing and it's been a huge growing experience, and I'm really going to miss the friends that I've made here, but I have high hopes for the future and the summer because I know that God is doing big things in my life and that He has picked this time out for me to go to Germany and to spend time there. In reality, I'm not ready for this. The language is going to kill me, the challenges are going to stretch me--my comfort zone is going to have to be non-existent if I want to enjoy my time. So that's what I'm going to need to do.

It's odd for me to be so comfortable with being uncomfortable. I've always been pretty resistant to change and to disorientation because it is often frustrating--mostly because I'm just bad at expressing those frustrations and don't always know how to process them. But as I've been learning this semester more and more about how to process things and how to expound on them externally, I think that I'm being more and more prepared for this time. Yeah, I'm not ready, but at least I'm ready for the fact that I’m not ready.

So what else is new in my life? Man I suck lately at updating t his blog. No updates from Tallinn or Riga, not even from Russia! That simply means that you, my readers and friends, need to remember to ask me about these things because I'm going to have a lot of pictures and stories that are untold. I'll work on getting more things up. I may or may not have time to upload things in Germany.