For a small-time Wisconsin girl, going to Florida for a year is like a dream come true. Especially when you enjoy the heat, and are sick of the snow and cold. Last summer, it didn't really feel like a summer. It was warm maybe four days the whole summer! I hardly went swimming all summer and felt like I was working all summer. It was my idea to have a regular job and an unpaid internship. But at the end of the summer, I wondered what in the world I had gotten myself into.

Flash-forward to today. In less than a week and a half, I'll be in warm, sunny Florida working for AmeriCorps. All summer, I've been hanging out with friends, working 40 hours a week, packing up my dorm room, then my house room, and now packing for the trip. Even though I'm a huge pack-rat, I have to shove everything I want for a whole year in a small car with room for Nina and all of her stuff. Talk about impossible.

But impossible is not a word, it's just a reason for someone not to try. I am definatly going to make this work! I can't wait for a year of changing lives, especially my own!