Seville is beautiful; Palm trees, yummy food, beautiful gardens, basically everything I could ask for on a wonderful vacation. But right now, all I want is a movie night in my cozy bed, hanging out with my family, or a girls night. I've been in Spain for a week now and I've had a great time! Trips to the City Center for some tapas or Starbucks, shopping for black and white post cards to add to my collection to re-do my room with when I go home, my nightly walks with Kimmy just talking about anything and everything. It's all great and I love every second of it, but on rainy days like yesterday and today it makes it hard being in a part of town where it isn't as touristy so there aren't as many accommodations for those dreary days. Once the sun starts shining again it will be all fine and dandy and I'll be back to my daily tanning sessions! But it's days like these that make you want to just call up your friends to see what's new with them. But I'd rather not have an outrageous phone bill. Well that's what technology is for, right? To be connected to anyone, anytime, any day! Not in our case. The internet is unbearable to the point we have to sit in the stairwell to get mediocre connection to even attempt to Skype.
I know I sound like a drag and an ungrateful brat, and I promise that isn't the case in the slightest! Even after being Europe for 81 days I still wake up every morning and feel like someone needs to pinch me to snap me out of this dream like life that I am living. But after these seven weeks and five days it also makes you realize it's not so easy being away from home. I tell myself that I'm away from home just about as long as I have been while I'm at school in a normal semester, but it's just different, and a lot more difficult. One forgotten email from family makes a thousand miles in between you and them feel like a million. It's like you have to realize that as much as we are in our own little world living the European dream over here it doesn't make life on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean stop, as much as we feel as though the universe revolves around us on this half.
I've talked to a bunch of people here and we're all starting to get the itch for home now that it is at the tip of our fingers. There's only thirty four days left, which is so bittersweet. I don't want this experience to be over because I've been looking forward to it for so long. When I was looking at colleges this study abroad program was a big part of St. John's as my final choice. I remember applying to do Discover the World and writing paragraphs about how I wanted to experience different cultures and have an experience of a lifetime, which I can say I have done beyond my expectations. And I don't know when the next time will be that I am going to be in Europe, so I want to take in everything I can while I have it in the palm of my hand. But at the same time I want to go back to reality of seeing my family, knowing whats going on with everyone that I care about, being able to lay on my couch on a lazy Sunday. I know as soon as I'm home I'm going to wish that I could be back, reliving this over and over again. But right now I could use nothing more than a Bouchie night!
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