[Aether]

Good story, it really incorporates the build-up of anticipation before the trip and the great relief and joy that comes upon arriving.

I personally am in a similar situation to you right now. I wished to go to Japan through a study abroad program, but my university only selects about six people. Let me put that in perspective, out of the 50,000 plus students, they only selecting six people. While I am certain not everybody was applying for the Japanese study abroad program, I knew quite a few personally who were and could only assume there were also quite a few people who I did not know who also applied. So when I got the call from my university saying that I had been accepted, I was ecstatic.

Now that I have completed the majority of the piles of paperwork that was asked of me, all I really have left to do now is count of the months, days, minutes until I leave in September. Everyday I just become more excited; I can't wait to get to Japan.