Are exchange students crazy?? definitely =D

To start, I just want to say I love exchange students. I really do. They are the most awesome people in the world. I have said it before, but as soon as you meet a new one, you automatically have a bond, because you were crazy enough to come live in a foreign country by yourself. But still we are the most diverse and amazingly fun group of people you could ever hang out with. Here is a great poem like thing to describe why we (exchange students) are crazy enough to do exchange.

.-How are you going to know what a dream is...if you've never completed one.

.-How are you going to know what an adventure is...if you never undertook one.

.-How are you going to know what anguish is...if you never told your family and friends "see you soon"

with your eyes full of tears.

.-How are you going to know what desperation is...if you never arrived in a place, alone, without understanding anything the others were saying

.-How are you going to know what it means to miss someone...if you've never been away from home

.-How are you going to know what diversity is...if you've never shared under the same roof with people from all over the world

.-How are you going toknow what tolerance is...if you've never had to get used to something different, even if you don't like it.

.-How are you going to know what independence is...if you've never had to make decisions for yourself.

.-How are you going to know what it means to grow...if you never quit being a child to start in a new

direction.

.-How are you going to know what disability is...if you've never had to urge to hug someone, but the

computer screen got in your way

.-How are you going to know what distance is...if you've never looked at a map and said "Wow, I'm far"

.-How are you going to know what a language is...if youve never had to learn one to make friends

.-How are you going to know what patriotism is...if you've never shouted "I love my country" holding a flag in the hand.

.-How are you going to know what a party is...if you've never traveled hours to go to one

.-How are you going to know what true reality is...if you've never had the opportunity to see many different ones so you can create your own.

.-How are you going to know what an opportunity is...if you've never taken advantage of one

.-How are you going to know what pride is...if you never felt it for yourself when you realize what you've accomplished.

.-How are you going to know what it means to seize the moment...if you've never seen how time passed through your hands with great strides

.-How are you going to know what a friend is...if the circumstances never taught you which ones are real

.-How are you going to know what a family is...if you've never had one that supported you unconditionally

.-How are you going to know what your boundaries are...if you've never passed them to see what lies beyond.

.-How are you going to know what money is...if you never had to manage it to get along.

.-How are you going to know what imagination is...if you've never thought about the moment you get back home

.-How are you going to know what the world is...if you never were an EXCHANGE STUDENT

I really love exchange, and I dont want to go home, I want to live this life. I feel like I have two completely seperate lives right now. The one from back home, and the one I am creating here. All of your mind says to never let go of your home, and the life you left their, but your heart aches to start and develop the new one here on exchange. Its a hard feeling to describe, but I am ready to be completely involved in the new one, and leave the old one behind. But the realist in me knows, that in 8 months, I will have to switch back to the old life. And thinking about that right now, makes me really sad, leaving everything here behind. When I left my old life, I knew it would be there when I come back, but this one, not. Its my one year here and I am going to live it up, completely immerse, no regrets. But dont worry, i am not sad, and moping around, these are just the ideas that I am thinking right now. I have learned to develop a positive attitude for even the worst situations. I also just realized my blog probably does not make a lot of sense to some people, and its also not a typical blog. I actually like to use it to just say exactly what i am thinking or feeling, and that seems to help, and dont worry, I will still post about the things I am doing and so on. But i think the beginning of exchange, puts the most thoughts in your head about life and everything, and I want to write them down, and look back at not only what i did, but how i felt. This is still the best decision I have ever made in my life. =D

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes