Background

I should start with where I've been, it'll help explain where I'll go. My name is Danielle, and I turned 18 back in November. This past May I graduated from high school. As of count I have been to: Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, England, The Vatican City, Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Germany by myself. Well, by myself meaning without my parents and family but with other teenagers. I spent two summers in those countries and I've spent the last summer and this current summer stuck in Kansas. It goes without saying that I am craving a new atmosphere. I am craving to travel.
As of to date, I have never smoked cigarettes nor pot, have never had more than a sip or two of alcohol at any given time, have never had sex nor even kissed a boy. One could say I'm very shelter and I don't want to be anymore. During high school I wrote for the yearbook and won many awards, wrote many stories but most importantly I met a lot of people that I wouldn't have given the time of day to if I was still the person I was before I joined yearbook. It opened me up and made me that person that everyone knows I guess you could say. I loved it, but lately I've kind of kept to myself and once again I don't want to anymore.
I work at a retirement home as a waitress and when I hear stories from people about what they did in their life and how they know 7 different languages fluently or how they were one of the first girls to work on bomber planes for WWII it makes me feel inadequate and it makes me think how pointless our generation is.
In the fall I am attending university still in Kansas. I didn't apply anywhere else, but it is a good school and it's so different from the Kansas I grew up in that I know it will be a good learning experience for me. I'm rather judgmental about people who enjoy life under the influence but as it turns out I have been placed in the druggie dorm on campus. So I think it will put me in a new perspective and become more accepting to people and their ways. I hoping while in college I can travel abroad, I know I will. I wouldn't mind taking a break from my life to see other cultures life. I want that, I don't want my simple watch tv, surf the net, hang out with the same people and work at the old folks home life anymore. I want something different something new. I want to take charge of my life. As of now I am pre-journalism with a side of history.
That's it for now, as I go farther in life and experience new things I'll add more as I check them off things I want to do before I die.
Danielle