Danse Danse Danse Elle me Danse!

This last week was interesting. It was composed of nerves, anger, laughter, adventure, anxiety and happiness. It was quite the week of emotions but this is what traveling and living abroad is.

I think many people, myself included, are homesick at times and staying in one place and not constantly doing something can make you remember your homesickness. This has all crept up on everyone and people react to it differently. It may be lashing out on people via academic blogs or just being in a funk for a day, being in a funk for a day was me about a week ago.

 I will be the first to admit that I am a worry wort as some might say. I worry about making it to places on time and always need to double check things. So, I had to travel alone to Basel airport and fly to Barcelona to meet up with my petit ami. This involved a train, bus, airplane and a metro. Of course it all worked out in the end but I would be lying if I didn't say I was not full of anxiety a lot of the time. However, it also gave me confidence in the end. I feel great now and traveling just gives you the learning experience that you cannot acquire just sitting at home. It has been said before but seriously the old quote "It isn't about the destination but the journey to the destination", or however it is worded, is a very true saying.

Now I am filled with happiness because I have someone from home with me for a week and I am combining these two different world I live in. It is already a taste of how different it will be to go home and be 'out of the loop' with what is going on at home and having new friends, some of which live far away, that I am in the loop with but never saw back home.  

So, all these emotions you encounter you learn how to deal with these things and it makes you a more well rounded person, at least I would like to think. We have one more month and while I hope that the anger and homesick emotions do die down I hope that we all still make the best of our fortunate situation and don't let anyone bring us down. -Here comes the corny but necessary statement- We have all learned so much if we know it or not.        

-Tyler Underwood