Pre-departure briefing

Passport: Check
Ticket: Check
Documentation: Check
Luggage: well...

Moving overseas for a year ain't exactly an easy process and it certainly won't sort itself out! After 9 months of planning, emailing, applying, advising I do have a few things to show:

• An exchange place at Albert-Ludwigs Universitat Freiburg
• Accommodation during semester at the Evangelischer Studentenwohnheim, a Lutheran-run student residence/community of 110 people
• A place in a month-long intensive language course and accommodation throughout
• A plane ticket
• A scholarship plus financial aid from Melbourne University plus the Baden-Wuerrtemberg Scholarship
  

And yet there are still so many things to organise and it's coming up so very quickly.

It's getting exciting and I'm really looking forward to a year of new adventures, places, people even language, thought and philosophy.