I honestly can't believe that it's already been that long (or that short actually). I've met the coolest people, and have experienced some of the greatest things I ever have in my life. Within this one month I've settled into a new town in a new country, made new friends, tried new foods, been to the highlands, started my junior year of college, hiked an extinct volcano, seen a country vote for its independence, walked more than I have in my life, and been in, above, and below one of Europe's oldest towns. The people in this country have all been fantastic, and I love everywhere I've been. It seems like we still have so much longer here, but we really don't and, while it will be great to return to my family and friends, I'm going to be really sad when I have to leave the new people I've met as well as this whole country in general, even though it's temporary. I have already learned new things in school as well as outside of it, about my surroundings, about people, and definitely about myself. We have a few trips booked already, about all of which I am ecstatic. So I'm going to continue to enjoy these next couple of months in this beautiful part of the world with new friends and really make the absolute most out of this experience. It's crazy to think that right now I'm living in a period of my life on which I will be able to look back in fifty years; at that point I'll be saying "Back when I studied abroad in Scotland,", but right now I'm still living it and I know that as a whole, this will be one of the greatest experiences of my entire life- I just won't notice that completely until it's in the past and I look back in retrospect. So I want to make that looking-back experience one hundred times better and more vivid for myself. I am so incredibly blessed to have this opportunity, for my friends new and old, for my good health, and definitely for the support of my family through all of this.
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