Today I'm heading to a rotary event in Treviso! I think it's district conference, but I'm not exactly sure but all the exchange students from my district are going to sing the nation anthem of Italy. Usually I would be really excited to see everyone, but today is a little bittersweet. This is the last time I get to see some of them before they go home. I can't believe that this is it. Even though I'm still going to be here for a while, it still just kind of feels like the end. The people that were only strangers nine months ago are now the people that I depend on most in this world. They were the ones I called when I had a problem or when I just felt like I couldn't take one more day of this. They know me better than most people from home and they understand everything I'm going through. It's going to be hard not being able to just call one of them up to go Venice or Verona or Bologna for the day just to explore and enjoy our lives together. I still have 53 days here, but it's just not going to feel the same when half of my life is now spread around the world. Yes, I will see half of them again for Eurotour, but this is it for the other half. This is goodbye. I thought the more times I've said those words this year the easier it would get. But no matter how many goodbyes I say in my life, it's never going to get easier. And I don't know if that is entirely a bad thing either. I guess it just means that there're people in this world worth being sad about missing and I'm lucky to have gotten to meet so many of them!
And I now have seven countries and multiple states in the US waiting for me with open doors.
From the first day we met,
And everything in between
(We seriously do not take enough group photos)
To the end.
They are the family I choose for myself and a little bit my heart will always be spread around the world with them. Thank you for an amazing year.
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