The past three months have been the longest (and farthest) I have ever been away from my family, even when I’m at school, I go home on occasion and I only live 20 minutes away. It has been really different to be apart like this. To be honest I have enjoyed it in a lot of ways and I’m glad that I’ve had the distance for so long, but after a while it did start to finally hit me that I do miss the states and being so close. Today my mom got here and for the next 9 days we’ll be traveling together. It’s nice to have my mom here for a bit, it brings home a little closer. Lately I’ve been in and out of feeling home sick. This has been a great semester and I still have another 2 months before I officially fly back to the states, but I’m ready to be back among familiar places with friends and family. Nothing will ever be better than being home with everyone and the closer I get to the end of this semester the more prepared I am to be home already.
My mom being here marks the beginning of my month long euro trip. She came down to Cork from Dublin for a few hours and I showed her around the campus and where I lived and we took some time to just relax and figure some more things out for our trip. Now that classes are over I have the entire month of April to do anything, and by anything I mean travel. For the 9 days that I’m with my mom we’ll be going to Venice, Rome, and Paris, which were the top 3 places that I wanted to go to at some time during April. Since I knew I had this entire month to travel I spent some time figuring out places I wanted to go to and I knew that it would be impossible to go everywhere, but knowing what I wanted to do helped with planning things out. When my mom found out she was coming (my dad and I planned it out together before telling her) we talked about traveling outside of Ireland together and we agreed upon Italy and France. After my mom flies back home I’m spending a day in Dublin to see what I missed around St. Patrick’s Day and then I’m flying back out of Dublin to start my 10 days in 5 countries. I am spending 2 days in The Netherlands, 2 in Sweden, 3 in Germany, 1 in Norway, and 2 in Finland. After those 10 days I’ll spend another 10 in Spain where I have family. When I get back to Cork I start final exams and then before I know it I’ll be headed home. It will be a very busy last couple of months here but all in all this has been a great experience and I’ll be ready to be home when it’s all over.
With Love Always
You miss me.
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