the last hoorah..for NOW
unfortunately, i was so busy with island hopping & wine-tasting in greece, boating and exploring in croatia, & meeting life-changing people, that i wasn't able to have my hands glued to my keyboard and reporting every cool experience that happened. i'll leave those stories to tell in person because i don't know if it will do any justice telling them without my over-exaggerated hand movements and expressions. what i do know, is i am approaching my last day in croatia before heading off to london for 4 days, and then home on sunday. that is SO weird to say. after 8 months of traveling, i'm able to say that i've traveled to 29 cities within 7 countries, lived AND worked in israel as a first responder in an ambulance for half of year, all at the age of 19-20. i have to admit, it feels damn good to be able to have a goal to travel, aim for it, and actually go through with my plans. i wouldn't have been able to do it without the obvious support of my family and friends. the experiences i've been through, the lessons i've learned, the people i've met, the perspectives that i have seen and accepted, have all been worth it. traveling has changed me; i will never look at the world the same after traveling. i've always been pretty confident with who i am and my sense of self. but after these 8 months, one and a half being by myself, i TRULY found myself. i was tested under stressful situations, language barriers, and poorly given directions, but always found a way through it. not caring about finding wifi, completely getting lost, and throwing away any expectation is what made it so fun. in life, i truly opened my eyes to so many new opportunities and will be bringing back everything i have learned back home with me. this is not the end, but i am finally ready to be back home and settle down again. i repeat, this is not the end, but for now...the last hoorah begins :') "Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."










