February 5-7, 2017

What’s it like to leave everything I’ve known and loved for almost half a year on my own? I had received my acceptance letter to go on exchange in the spring semester of 2017 at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and was finally leaving. There was a heavy mixture of excitement and nervousness the days leading up to my departure. Even when I was saying goodbye to some of the most important people in my life, it was only starting to hit me then that I was leaving for a while. It felt odd to utter sentimental words of a farewell because although I knew I would miss them, how was it possible to mean those words completely when I couldn’t even believe that I was leaving.

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