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I feel like a completely different person. I loved everything about my trip, even the setbacks like my hotel flooding and destroying my phone/the flash on my camera in the process and losing my passport. I don't care if it's trite to say this: I haven't felt this alive in such a long time. This is exactly what I needed.
I'm aiming to get my drivers' license before August 25th. I was going going going all the time and I loved it. In a car, a bus, a plane, a train, a ferry, a metro. I barely slept, met so many amazing people who were so different than anyone I normally hang out with, saw things I never thought I'd have the chance to see even three years ago.
I'm taking the weekend to recoup and spend time with my family and some friends. I got home late Friday night jetlagged after coming home from Dublin so for a while my body was still 5 hours ahead of the East Coast, but I'm fine now.
Being there gave me the sense that, no matter how miserable I get, I'm not stuck here. I can leave and there are so many places where I could feel at home. A Canadian couple we met in Santorini offered us a place to stay if we ever decide to make our way to Ontario. People in Dublin were engaging everywhere we went, and everything I was worried about before seems to trivial.
I miss it already, and the whole time I was there the only thing that worried me was that I wasn't homesick at. all. I just wanted some of my friends to be there. Also, Belgian beer is stellar and a tattoo of the fish on this logo is definitely happening:
But I'm back now and I want to see everyone! Also, send me your phone number somehow because my phone's gone.
I'm aiming to get my drivers' license before August 25th. I was going going going all the time and I loved it. In a car, a bus, a plane, a train, a ferry, a metro. I barely slept, met so many amazing people who were so different than anyone I normally hang out with, saw things I never thought I'd have the chance to see even three years ago.
I'm taking the weekend to recoup and spend time with my family and some friends. I got home late Friday night jetlagged after coming home from Dublin so for a while my body was still 5 hours ahead of the East Coast, but I'm fine now.
Being there gave me the sense that, no matter how miserable I get, I'm not stuck here. I can leave and there are so many places where I could feel at home. A Canadian couple we met in Santorini offered us a place to stay if we ever decide to make our way to Ontario. People in Dublin were engaging everywhere we went, and everything I was worried about before seems to trivial.
I miss it already, and the whole time I was there the only thing that worried me was that I wasn't homesick at. all. I just wanted some of my friends to be there. Also, Belgian beer is stellar and a tattoo of the fish on this logo is definitely happening:
But I'm back now and I want to see everyone! Also, send me your phone number somehow because my phone's gone.