Supposedly Quick Intro

I'm Elsa, I'm 16, and I'm going to be a junior in high school. The funny thing about my junior year is, I will be spending it abroad! I am a Rotary International Youth Exchange student from district 6290 (the best district. 62!-90!). I will be hosted by district 1460 which happens to be in Lithuania! I will be spending my year abroad in Kaunas, Lithuania. Lithuania was 4th on my list out of 40-some countries.
To answer the question of many; "Now why Lithuania?", at the first Rotary conference, one of my roommates was the inbound from Lithuania. She made the country sound really interesting and so I put it higher up on my selection list. When I found out I was going, I wasn't sure what to think. Giedre, my roommate/friend, said it is an amazing country. I began to research it and I fell in love. I can't imagine going anywhere else now.
Now up to this moment; I leave two weeks from today. I'm leaving on August 23rd. I want to hurry up and leave! Not that where I live. In fact, it's not bad at all. I love this place. Leelanau County has been my home for eleven years and I will always consider it my hometown. I want to leave this place, not to put it behind me and move on, but to go on adventures and explore. This place holds many memories, friends, and beautiful things. The hardest part about leaving will be saying goodbye to all my friends. I love you all! But I will be back for my senior year. I've come to the decision that the reason this is so hard for me is that I have so many memories with these people that I can't believe that I'm passing up the chance to make one more year of them. But things and people change. I hope to keep this blog to keep you all updated on my year so you can hear what I'm doing but so I don't have to individually tell everyone everything. Doing that would take a lot of time, energy, and it would not let me fully experience my year away from what I know and am used to.

With love,
-Elsa