Nashledanou!

(Translation: Goodbye!)

Not only has saying goodbye to the city been tough, but saying bye to my friends is even worse. It's not that I don't want to go home, because I am looking forward to seeing everyone, but I just want to be able to come back next semester with all of the same people.

I've given a lot of thought to whether I'm going to continue the blog once I get home, and I've decided that for now I am. There are still a bunch of things from my last week that I want to write about so that I remember them, and I have a feeling that there are going to be a lot of things about the trip that I won't truly appreciate until I am back home and notice the differences and have time to reflect on it. Therefore, stay tuned, because the boring ramblings of my trip aren't over yet!

I leave my dorm in three hours, and my flight leaves in five. I will be back on U.S. soil in about twenty hours. See you soon!