32 days and counting

32 days! It's now only 32 days until my flight to Germany. Oh. My. Gosh.
I seriously can't believe just how quickly it has snuck up on me. I'm a mixture of feelings at the moment, ranging from unbelievable excitement that makes me want to dance around my room, to the feeling that I'm a rabbit caught in the head lights worrying that 6 months is quite a long time to be away from my family and friends and that I'll get home sick! OK, so that's a slight exaggeration as I am coming home for Christmas! But still, it's a long time right!?
I keep checking the facebook group for the 2011/12 year! ...it's made its way onto my group tabs on my facebook home screen, so I'm kind of obsessively checking it at the moment! As far as I can tell, I'm still the only British person going, which I think is kinda cool! There are like 85 odd people in the group, and words cannot describe how excited I am to meet all the people in this group.
I've also come across, through my increasing blog addiction, some blogs of people who went to Bodenseehof the last few years. Reading about how much they loved it just brings a smile to my face. It's clear reading these blogs that these guys had a class 6 months, and their relationship with God just grew during there time there. I'm so excited to get stuck into God's word. Taking 6 months of my life to do just that; awesome. I feel like at the moment I'm missing out on being fed spiritually. My quiet time have become much less regular than I would like, and I don't really have a home church at the moment which I'm struggling a bit with. Hence my excitement.
My last ever placement started this again this week (is that light I see at the end of the tunnel!? Heck yes it is!!) and all the staff have been asking 'ooh, so your job hunting?! Have you got a job lined up yet?!'. And I've just been honest with them. My previous placement, I kind of didn't tell them that I was taking time out straight after I finish my training. I guess I though they would this I was daft doing that. Not about going to bible school, just more not going straight into a job. And so whenever they asked my, I would just say something like 'well, I'm keeping my eyes open for any jobs that I might like. But I've not applied for any yet'. Which wasn't a lie, I was occasionally having a look on the NHS website to see what the job situation was like, and I hadn't applied for any jobs, but I wasn't really telling the whole truth.
But this placement I just told them from the start. Yeah, they probably do think it's not the best move to not go straight into a job, but to be honest, I don't care. I believe it's the right thing for me to do. I believe this is what God has planned for me right now. So I'm going for it.