Why am I going to the US for a year?

Hello everyone!
My name is Lieke, a 18-year-old Dutch girl. I am currently living in Philadelphia, (Pennsylvania, USA) as an Au Pair and this blog is about my gap year here.
Since I quit my education (Nutrition & dietetics) in March 2019, I had been thinking about what I want to do next. After a few weeks I knew what I really love to do: travelling. 'I want to see the world' I said to myself. That's why I started my journey when I just turned 18 on the beautiful little Island: Curaçao. I have been there for 12 days and I have learned so many new things from this trip! And I also became a lot more independent because of it!  Then I started looking for different studies at various colleges / Universities. Unfortunately, without much result… Then I started looking for other options and finally I ended up with a gap year as an Au Pair in the USA with the Dutch agency 'Travel Active' and I chose to do this! In May I started arranging this great adventure and within a few weeks I already had arranged a lot. Thanks to my mom who helped me with everything we had to do for this!!! Because I wanted to go to France during summer to do entertaining work with children on a camping, it was not always easy to do everything I had to do for my Au Pair profile and for the orientation in New York.

Luckily it all worked out and September 3 I could finally fly to New York with 4 other Dutch Au Pairs from the same agency and here our adventure was going to start!
On August 30, I gave a big American Party for all of my friends and it was really great to see all of them before I went to the US! I already knew I was really going to miss them after everybody would leave the party., but apparently I was able to handle this feeling somehow.. I also had a party for my family one week before and that was also great! I will miss all these lovely people so much! And I really didn't know how I should deal with this when I am in the US, but on the other hand, I was really looking forward to go to the US and start a whole new life there! I couldn't wait to go!

However, I really want to thank all of my friends and relatives for all the support they gave me for making my dreams come true! I love you all so much guys, and I won't have ever done this without you! I will definitely keep you up to date about my life here, so keep an eye on my blog if you are interested! I will update it every week and add some pictures! Also keep me up to date about the life in the Netherlands of course!!