Would you be excited? Scared? Nervous?
All of the above was the answer Erika Fairweather gave.
She would know, too.
The year 11 Kavanagh College pupil leaves for Korea and the swimming world championships in two weeks.
There she will race in the 200m and 400m freestyle, as well as the 4x200m relay.
She may also come up against Katie Ledecky - the world record holder in three events and the swimmer Fairweather has looked up to.
"I'm so excited. It's going to be so cool," she said.
The trip comes as a result of an impressive showing representing Neptune at the national open championships in Auckland last week.
She firmly cemented herself as the country's best female freestyler.
After claiming silver in the 50m on day one, she won golds in the 100m, 200m and 400m.
It was the first time she had won gold at the open championships.
But it was her time in the 400m that was the highlight.
She clocked 4min 09.33sec to dip under the Fina A qualifying time and smash her personal best by 3sec.
It was the eighth-fastest time by an 18-and-under swimmer in the world this year.
Even the United States has only had seven girls go faster at the same age.
Making the world championships team had not been a goal, although Fairweather admitted it may have been in the back of her mind.
"It kind of came as a bit of a surprise, the time and everything, making the team.
"[The 400m] was an insane race. I was so happy with it.
"I thought I could go faster than my PB, but definitely not that fast."
She will head to Japan for eight days where the New Zealand team will have a camp.
From there she will move on to Gwangju.
Her goal is a simple one and results do not come into it.
"Just go out and do my best and see what happens."
The Olympics would appear to be the next step and that remained an aim.
Trials for next year's Games in Tokyo will be held in April.
If she could make it there it would be great, although she was not getting hung up on it.
She was continuing to take a quality over quantity training approach.
Her seven pool sessions and two gym sessions a week would seem plenty, although she said a lot of others did more.
That could depend on the person and what they did in the sessions.
Neptune's Molly Law and Wanaka's Benjamin Silipo were included in the 2019-20 national squads alongside Fairweather.
Fairweather was named in the gold squad, Silipo made the silver squad, while Law was picked in the bronze.
