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Nää viimeset pari viikkoo on ollu ihan mahtavia, mulla on ollu koko ajan jotain tekemistä. Oon nähny kavereita, koulu oli helppoo, valmistuin muiden amerikkalaisten kanssa, kokeilin "kallioiipeilyä", oon ollu keilaamassa ja koskenlaskuuki tuli kokeiltua.
Hyvästit ei oo tuntunu hyvästeiltä. En tuu näkemään mun tärkeitä kavereita välttämättä enään koskaan, mutta musta tuntuu et nään ne tos parin päivän pääst koulus. Ehkä se tekee siit vaan helpompaa.
Mä oon tottunu elämään ku amerikkalainen, enkä mä tosta noin vaan pysty sopeutumaan takas Suomeen.
Oon ikuisesti kiitollinen tästä koko kokemuksesta, se teki musta paljo onnellisemman ihmisen :)
Time has gone by way too fast. A week ago I was able to say that "I don't have that much time here left", but now I actually have to start to pack.
These last weeks for me have been amazing, I've had so much to do. I've been with my friends, school was easy, I got to graduate, I went "rock climbing" and river rafting.
Goodbyes don't feel like goodbyes. I won't see some of my good friends maybe ever again, but it feels like I'm gonna see them in just a few days at school. Maybe that just makes it a little easier.
Being an exchange student has been the best decision of my life. I don't even know how to explain how it feels like. I don't think anyone can really understand it, except another exchange student. I've learned so much, grown as a person and gotten so many wonderful memories. I know myself better now and I know what I want from my life.
Of course it's nice to go back home. A while ago I though that I want to live the rest of my life in Finland, and most likely I will. But it's not impossible that one day I'll decide to move here. This is my second home. I have family and friends here, and I'm no just the Finnish exchange student anymore. I'm American as well.
I'm scared to go back home. I know that no-one will understand how I feel like, no matter how hard they try. I just hope that they'll understand that I need time to get used to my old life. I'm not the same Jenna anymore that I was when I left Finland. I'm not completely different, but I have new habits and maybe my personality has changed a little bit.
I've used to living like an American, and I can't feel normal in Finland just like that.
I'm just trying to live one moment at a time. I can't make time go any slower, so I just have to enjoy every moment that I have left here. Part of me wishes that my exchange year could last forever, but everything has to come to an end, no matter how bad it feels like.
I'll forever be grateful for this experience, it made me a much happier person :)
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