Well, this is probably the last time I will be writing about how fun my studying abroad experience was unless I will write about how it feel to be in USA (which I will not do). It has been a really great semester and right now I am in London which is my last stop before I head back to Holland Michigan.
When the semester started I was confused and nervous of how it will be to live in a country and a continent that was so strange to me. Things progressed as time passed and by the time I was very comfortable with the surrounding and the people around me it was time to leave. Knowing that it is time to leave is always a bittersweet feeling; on one hand I have learnt so much about Europe, the European Union (apparently more than any people who actually live here), met a lot of new people, and travelled so many new places, and on the other hand I am leaving a lot of good friends I have met in the past several months not knowing when we would meet again. In a way I knew that this was coming but the people who I shared the past few months with will always be special because let’s face it, I will not be travelling all over Europe with the same 52 people ever again (unless).
Me telling you how good it was can go on forever so if you really think that I am right then you should try it for yourself. Just find a place you want to travel and learn the culture, get out of your comfort zone, and in the end you will discover places, people, and most importantly yourself too. I would recommend it to anyone who I will talk to as this has been the most amazing few months of my life. I will probably try and send my kids abroad too.
One more thing that I realized was that there was a question on my first day of orientation in Freiburg which asked me one place I really wanted to go to. I had written Anfield which is the football stadium for my favorite football team since I was a kid. Since I have a Nepalese passport I knew that getting to UK and to Liverpool was going to be hard but yesterday I managed to get there and it was a very emotional time. Today I have just been contemplating how far I have come from the day I left Holland and ready to go back. It has been a great time writing about all that I have done and if you ever see me in the sidewalks of Hope college please come by and ask me how it actually was. I will make sure not to take a lot of your time because in the end it was all amazing.
