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  • Month six

    January brought the half-year anniversary of my departure from my native land and arrival in the New World. Other than that, it wasn’t too interesting. But after all, I am living my dream…

  • Month five

    The fifth month has passed since I left what I’d been calling home, and with it came the end of the first school semester. For others, it might just mean we’re getting closer…

  • Month four

    Quite some time has passed, and a lot has happened since the last time I updated my little online diary. It’s been a month, four weeks, if you must, since I let you…

  • Week twelve

    The twelfth week passed, marking three months of my little adventure. And what would it be without anything but pleasant experiences? What would I have learned if I’d made no mistakes? Last Friday,…

  • Week eleven

    I’m getting close to three months of living far away from everything I’ve known. It feels like yesterday when I left home to find a second home across the ocean, yet so much…

  • Week eight

    Homecoming week!!! My first and probably only Homecoming in my life took place this past week, and it was wondrous, starting at the weekend, which was wildly exciting. One of my closest exchange…

  • Week four

    Just a few more days will make it a month since I got here. A month of living my dream. And nine more to come. It flies by so fast… Last Friday, I…

  • It’s getting closer

    A couple months has passed since the beginning of the whole preparing process of my exchange year and although I still haven’t gotten a placement, I feel like a lot happened, a lot…

  • First introductions

    The event I was very excited about for a few weeks has finally come. We had the first “picnic” with my fellow exchange students yesterday. We met up in the office of the…