Letters From Lizz ... Under the Italian Sun!

Hi all again! Possibly for the last time via /this/ blog.

I will be leaving tomorrow morning to study abroad in Italy for five weeks!! Woot! I'm so excited. But also, I'm way passed my 22 birthday now. So it has come time for this blog to reach it's end, sadly.

While this may be a door closing, this new year of mine is certainly not closing; it's only just beginning.

This last year has been interesting. Difficult, and growing, and sometimes unbearable.

• But I've met two amazingly wonderful new friends that I think will be a lasting friendship: Jimmy and Ashley. And some pretty amazing young women in the Vagina Monologues and from my house, Kaleidoscope House!
• I've had some tough times with trying to get back on my medication, and the idiotic hands that have kept me from either being able to receive it or being able to pay for it. 
• I got in my first car crash where I was driving and have proven to myself that I can handle it.
• I was blessed with free Subway footlongs for 52 weeks! (Yes, that's a year.)
• I got a cute new haircut!
• I dyed my hair for the first time ever!
• And I taught myself how to make some delicious lasagna!

This next year will still be trying and tough, but I'm older now, not just in age but in wisdom and strength. Yes, I still fall short, but I know God has a splendid plan for me. It started at UCI this year, and it will continue through the next. 

• In short, I have two new jobs. (Driving UCI's Shuttle Buses around campus and Council Manager in the Arroyo Vista Student Council, both starting in Sept)
• I am studying abroad in Italy for five weeks! AMAZING!
• I finally finished cleaning out my bedroom and the back "sewing" room in my mom's house (a project I've been working on since I graduated high school, 2007.)
• I will be living in the same cool house, Kaleidoscope House on campus. And have some awesome friends living near me.
• Amazing things will happen.

I'm scared and ready for whatever God tosses my way. He won't give me too much, even if it sometimes feels like it; and there will always be an 'escape route.'

Thank you for all your prayers over the years.

If you'd like to follow my Travel Blog for this Summer's trip to Italy and Paris, here's the link:

http://lizzundertheitaliansun.blogspot.com/

Here's my address from July 25 - August 25:

Accademia dell' Arte
Villa Godiola
Loc. San Fabiano 9
Arezzo, Italia 52100