Beginnings...

Beginning:

noun.

The start of an event or action;

birth, creation, dawn.

Tomorrow is "birth"day! The start of Chapter 1... The preface... The dawn... of this great story that began unfolding months ago. Tomorrow is the day that I was looking toward as I studied for the GRE, filled out applications, nervously interviewed. Tomorrow is the day I dreamed of as I celebrated an unlikely acceptance to South College, and kept in mind as I tearfully said goodbye to Young Life. Tomorrow is the day I continually reminded myself of as I studied my mind out this summer getting my last prereqs at UT and over the past few months as I labored over medical terminology text books and flash cards. And tomorrow I will wake up and it will finally be THAT day...THE day. Tomorrow I have orientation. My first day at South College as an official PA student! Holy crap! The journey is actually beginning. I'm so excited and so nervous I could barf right here on the keyboard!

I feel ready to start the journey, anxious to get a better picture of what this is really going to look like/ get a schedule/etc. (you all know me and my OCD nature that NEEDS schedules like most people NEED oxygen!), and I'm super excited to finally see faces of people who I will spend the majority of my time with for the next 27 months! But I'm ridiculously nervous! Geez... I haven't had a first day of school in a LONG time. All these questions started swirling weeks ago...What do I wear? Will I make friends? Where do I sit? Do I take a back pack? a purse? a tote bag? I mean I don't want to seem over-eager, but don't wanna look like a slacker! Ah! Currently I already have 3 outfits laid out, the coffee pot set for hours before I need to leave, and butterflies in my stomach! I feel like a little kid. But I kinda like it! =) New chapters are scary but they sure are exciting... I just can't believe it's already here!!

And hard to believe it all began with this...

Here we go! Can't wait to write all about it! Hopefully I won't get lost or have to sit by myself in the cafeteria (Pretty sure there's no cafeteria...phew!!)

The story begins...