Dear Rachel;

So here it is. This is that last letter I will write before I actually get to meet you! I am so excited. It has been awesome getting to talk to you on the phone, and getting to visit via Skype. I know that I will miss my friends and family, but I am really looking forward to meeting the New Directions. With everything that you've told me about them, I feel like I know them! The one thing that I didn't get to tell you about is the fact that we are now both single! Remember me telling you about my boyfriend Josh? Well he broke up with me! I guess with me being gone for a year, it was gonna be too much for him. I asked Hannah(my BFF) to keep an eye out, and let me know how soon he gets together with Cassidy(Queen B****). Not that I care, but I think we all knew that when he broke up with me, he was gonna go to her! Not that I care... I realized that I really don't have any feelings for him anymore... other than platonic ones! :) What about you? I know that you were still pinning for Finn... even though you said you were over him! You never forget your first love! That much I can understand, but is he still with Q? I guess you will most likely see me in person before you'd get a chance to write me.

My siblings are the best! Since I started writing this letter, you'd never believe what they did! They are gonna miss me so much that they downloaded Skype onto the home computer (it wasn't there before). We are gonna talk once a week! But that isn't the awesome thing! They all got me something! James got me a new memory card for my camera. Carolyn got me an album. She wants me to take as many pictures as I can so that they can see all of the things that I do, and the people I meet! Catherine and Joseph (with help from the parents) got me a video camera! Can you believe that! They said that any performances we do MUST be recoded! I am really going to miss them!

Well, I should go! I have to put this letter in that mail (I am curious to see if it will reach you before I do!) and get some sleep. I have a few last minute things to pack. I guess I will see you in three days!

Until then...

Lilly