This is a quote that I found while looking at one of my friends instagrams. You never really realise it, but your life is literally counting down. And i dont mean this in the bad way, I mean it in the good way. You have a set amount of time left, to go explore all these thing, and be happy with your life. Whatâre you going to do with it? It just hit me how odd it is. Here I am, 5,602 miles away from my home, and yet i donât feel that far at all. They say exchange changes you, and helps you grow as a person, and I agree. I can feel myself gaining all these thoughts about what I want to do and who I want to be, and even if iâm not sure of it yet, I know that whatever I pick, Iâll pick because it makes me happy, not for someone else. With each hardship that passes here, I find myself coming out as a stronger person knowing that i have all these amazing people on my side. Meeting these other exchange students is without a doubt the best thing to have happened to me so far. As an exchange student, youâre a weird one out. You have a funny accent, donât know how to work the ticket machines, and can barely ask for directions without getting a few odd glances. But when youâre with others, it just feels so right. Talking to someone from home about how you miss them doesnât do anything but make it feel worse. Instead, if you talk to your exchange student friends, they know exactly what you mean. There may be people who have travelled a lot, or people who studied abroad in college, but honestly nothing compares to talking with those people who are taking these same steps with you, the steps to becoming a whole new person. Weâre 16/17, and taking on the world, or it sure feels like it. While I know we arenât the best people, it just feels great to have someone understand everything thatâs happening. Exchange gives you so, so, so many emotions at once, and I consider myself a person who doesnât express their emotions that much. Youâre bombarded with grammar, languages, and more. Your phone has 8 keyboard languages that you have to switch between to talk to your friends. You have late night conversations with them talking about how you never want this year to end, and even though itâs only been about a month and a half, it feels like all the things weâve done have both taken up an entire year and an entire second. I couldnât have been here for that long, could I have? And yet, I have, and itâll continue to go, until itâs gone. In the blink of an eye, this will all be over. Exchange, foreign foods, weird languages, and more. Gone.
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