Last days in Austria & packing my bags!

The last few days at home are a mixture of all different kinds of feelings:
Being exited, because you will finally be able to live your dream.
Being  thankful, because you get to really see what you are going to miss.
Being sorry, for leaving all these people even though you have the best life at home.
Being sad, because you realize how incredible much you will miss your perfect life there.
Being scared, because you leave everything and everyone you know behind.
Being proud, because you are really going to do this.
Being happy, because you can't wait to finally do your thing.
Being angry, because you just can't close this huge Suitcase.
Being curious, because you don't know what your year will bring you.
Being hopeful, because you fought so hard to be able to do this and you just hope it was worth it.
Being confident, because you feel like everything is possible.
But being so incredible in love with everything.
If it's your Room or your village, or the city or your friends, you love all of it even more now that you have to say goodbye to them.
You try to memorize everything so that you really don't forget it.
You meet everyone for the last time, and even though you feel like crying every time another person has to say their final goodbye to you, you just can't seem to let the tears flow, because otherwise you absolutely couldn't stop them, which wouldn't be the prettiest memory.
So you just smile and pretend to think that the time you are away is not as long as it appears to be.
My leading sentence was "I'm going to be back faster than you can blink". That is very untrue because an average Human will blink 4.250.000 times while I'm away. That's not a blink and it won't feel like one. ( In case you have the pleasure to meet the weeping angles, you should minimize that number for your own health :)

I tried to explain my feelings in the days before my flight a bit (and I pray someone actually understands my Dr.Who reference)
So the last days are such a huge mess of feelings and people, but there's also one big Problem everyone has:

 Packing a suitcase for such a long time! In my particular case it was even harder because I had to pack all my medication for 1 year! So I had one suitcase with medication and one with all things like clothes and shoes and make-up etc.
I also promised to let you know if the suitcase with medication
is free or if I had to pay for a second suitcase: if you send an
email 48 hours before the flight departures it is free, but I wrote
  30 hours before (so more than one day) and I had to pay 80$
 for a spare suitcase...
The suitcase weight about 19kg and was pretty big.

 These are just some of the things I took with me. In the end I had 2 huge sacks (originally bags for shoes) and 2 smaller ones, with medication.  Obviously I also had to bring the devices for my medication. And at this point I have a big tip for you: check the watt your machines need, and also batterychargers.
I didn't think of that & I had to buy all of the things new with  lower watts needed. So just check before you bring them and trow them away after wards..
Another tip is to write note with everything you put aside the suitcase, because I had to unpack everything again because of the email I had to write to the airline. So write everything down and send the email with enough time before the flight!

With clothes I actually did great as far as I know. In the pictures you see "Vacuum Bags" which are plastic bags. You close them but open the shutter on the top and then connect the vacuum to it.
When you turn it on, the vacuum draws the air from it. As you can see the bag is really full, with 3 sweaters and jogging pants, and after the air is gone its really flat! So that's a really good idea for packing without taking up too much space.
I will do an update on what I packed was unnecessary and what was good.


So this is my last blog from Austria, the next Blog will be about my horror-flight and my first week in Miami!!
Thank you so much for spending your time with me! Please share this so as many people as possible can read how it is to fly away and pack the suitcases for such a long time with an illness.
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Have a great time and see you next week!