Nearly got all my packing done, big box of stuff sent home…plane leaves in a few hours – it’s really over and finished now.

This year has gone so quickly…but i guess every year does after it’s gone. However, i don’t regret 1 minute of it…it’s been a truly amazing year and i’ve had a truly amazing time. I’ve met so many really cool people that i won’t forget for a long, long time!, I’ve been places i’d never dreamed of and i’ve done things i never thought i would do.

I’ve learned so much. Not just my studying, but about different people and their societies, about the world through different eyes, about myself, about my friends and about life. There is definately no subsitute to life experience.

Sad? Yes…very. But happy to go on to new things.

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

Miriam Beard (1901 – )