Holy Life Changing Excursions, Batman!

So. I'm going to be leaving the country in roughly 12 days.

Am I excited?
Of course.

Am I also scared out of my mind?
Double yes.

So for those of you who don't know, let me catch you up.

I got chosen based on my GPA and major by the International Scholar Laureate Program to be a delegate to China for a study of Eastern medicine. It's an incredible experience, something that will look fantastic on my resume. I will be out of the county for a total of about 12-13 days, including travel time, and will be in the country of China for ten days. I will be visiting, in order, Beijing, Xi'an, and Shanghai. Super exciting, right?
Yes.

I never realized how much work was involved in going to another country! You have to get a passport, and then get a visa (both of which require separate pictures -- pain in the butt cuz they have to be just the right dimensions). Then there's the matter of plane tickets from LA to Beijing, which cost a small fortune. Then the tickets back to LA from Shanghai -- another good chunk of money. Then I get toworry about getting to LA from my house! It's all the little things that get me frazzled. It's so much to keep track of!

Then there's this business of the time change. How in the world do you get used to that? What if I get there and can't sleep, so then I oversleep in the morning? And what about when I come back? Oooh that should be fun, working two jobs when I come home! Haha.

That is granted I actually land the new job. It's at a hospital about half and hour from my house. The job description is basically doing a whole bunch of writing. Normally, a physician does a whole lot of writing, such as taking a patient's history, writing prescription instructions, etc. What I would be doing (as something called a scribe) is I would be doing all this writing for the doctor. This is to help the doctor be able to spend more time focusing on bedside manner and actually treating the patient. I would also be keeping the doctor up-to-date on the patients' statuses and such. This job would be such a great experience for me as I wish to go to medical school, and this experience would look amazing on my resume and med school apps.

Right now, I'm not even sure what I'm doing this fall. It is between this job and staying at home or in the same town at the same school for a while longer, or (if I somehow don't land this job) transferring to U of A for the fall semester. It totally freaks me out having my future so up-in-the-air... But I know that whatever happens, it's in God's hands and I know He only wants what's best for me. So I just have to be patient and wait. I find out about the job June 3rd. So.. Not too terribly much longer. But the waiting is driving me craaaaaaazy!

Soooo yeah. That's what's going on in myyy life right now... Kinda heavy stuff!

I'll definitely be blogging while I'm in China. So keep checking back! I'll post the link to Facebook when I post new stuff. Sometimes it'll just be pics, sometimes stuff I learned. I want to fully document this incredible trip!

Thank you my dear loyal readers, for putting up with another one of my posts full of random blabberings. I love you all. <3

Chelsers