Hello, so, so far I've just spent a consecutive nine months running around Germany. In that time I've completed two intensive german language courses, traveled to four different countries, climbed a mountain, and created a new family. The adventure isn't over yet, it is one day before I take-off to Poland where I will be joining the UWSP-Krakow Program. I am soaking in my last days in Frankfurt with Elli and her family not at all ready to say goodbye. I decided to double program for multiple reasons, to sum those reasons up I'd say I simply just wanted to learn they way I feel a person learns the most. That is, I wanted to learn through forming questions, experiences, adventure, and making mistakes. The hardest task about doing this year-long ordeal was the Bureaucracy of it all. I learned the hard way that acquiring a Visa mostly on your own is not an easy task, and to be honest, I almost did not succeed. It was by luck, and by the heart of the guy working at the Berlin Polish Embassy that made it possible for me to walk out of the office with a Polish Visa in hand. Thinking that I was prepared for such a task was a little foolish, but also an experience that now allows me to truly have that first hand knowledge of how these sort of things work. So this summer I may not have been doing an internship, or working a waitressing job, and many people may think that I am just "bumming around" in Europe, but that is not the case. To me, what I have learned here in Europe these last nine months, is something far more than any classroom or paycheck can give me.
So here I am, about to head to Poland and do this whole "study abroad group thing" a second go-around. I am going to be honest right now and say I am dreading leaving Germany. When I think about getting back on the plane with my belongings, my heart jumps, flips, and sinks. Of course the main reason that is making leaving so difficult is having to say goodbye to the german girl who stole my heart, and all the wonderful friends in which I built a new life around. I am also tired, too tired to want to re-pack up my life into a suitcase and a backpack, too tired to want to make new friends, and too tired for the bit a chaos in front of me. But I need to wake up and take it, I know I'll get through it all just the same.
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