Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Back...

Wow. After loosing connection with this blog for so long i can honestly say it feels wierd to be back. Both here and in america. After arriving about a month and a half ago in my "homeland" as other afs'ers sometimes refered to it, it easily described as diffent, strange, wierd, boring?. Nothing Like switzerland, but im pretty sure even a non exchange student could figure that one out. I am finding the things that have been bugging my most are the routines of my daily life. Well I miss my host family and friends like crazy, its the little things, like always saying "agueta mitanan" before each meal. Meeting friends on the train and getting a coffe, or sitting near the Rhein. Dressing up whenever you left the house. Walking everywhere. My bike. All the things that made my daily life, well, my life. Those are what I am finding I am missing the most. I feel like Ive come home, but Ive lost all the things that made home home.

Dont get me wrong. I have had a fabulous summer catching back up and traveling with my family. Its just the times when you find yourself having nothing to do where it hits you. On the upside, because of the hurricane my school is still in summer vacation which means that I have not really been able to have a daily schedual back home. Everyone has said it can start to get easier once you have the back. Right now Im not back to the stage I was with my friends before I left because I havent seen most of them yet. I dont have those people I can just go and hang out with therefore which makes it harder to adjust to being back home. Hopefully once school starts up Ill be able to reconnect or connect with new people, and start being the person I have become through out my year. Its easy to see ive changed already, but im hoping once I get back in a daily life where I really have things to compare myself to who i was, I will be proud with how ive changed and be even more thankful then I already am, for my time abroad.