I have changed

As I was redesigning a few bits and pieces on my blog, I decided to finally get the last of my pages translated from Danish to English and get it updated a wee bit, and as I was writing the "About me" text, I thought I would publish it as a blogpost as well, a bit different and longer though.

From when I stepped into that airplane towards Scotland, filled with expectations and hopes for the next 10 months, and to now, so much has changed. I have changed.
First of all, and such a shocker, I'm in a completely new country. I've left me and my Mom's newly bought house (which I had only lived in for 3 months and hadn't had time to finish my room despite working over the summer) with my 2 cats and hedgehog. I've left the city I've lived in since I was born and I've left my 4 brothers, parents, nieces, nephews and all of my friends. 
And oh, how I have grown. As I expected, leaving your safety nets behind you and starting "from new" in a country, you've never been in before, wasn't easy - actually, it was very hard, and it still is sometimes, but I've learned so much about myself and grown in a way I didn't expect at all.
Even though I've only been here for a few months, I've found some amazing friends and I've gotten close with my amazing hostfamily. I've been out sightseeing, I've been to school events and I've experienced Scotland well enough so that it feels like a second home.

And now I'm leaving in a few months. I have to say goodbye to my host family and Scottish as well as fellow exchange student friends, just as I said goodbye to everyone in Denmark not so long ago. I have to do it all again, but this time I won't know when I'll see everyone again and if I will see everyone again at all. Even if I do return to Scotland, which I really plan on doing, it will never be the same. Everyone will by then have gone seperate ways, to seperate universities, colleges and so on, and it'll all be totally different. I'll probably be different as well, just as I feel like it's a different person - a different version of me - who's returning to Denmark.

But to steer away from the sad mood I was creating there; I still have so many things to do before I leave. I still have so many things to see, people to be with and memories to obtain for when I'm sitting at home, doing the things I usually did and thinking back at one of the best years of my life.
So even though I do miss petting my little fat cat and I am sad that my Mom get to set up the chicken coop, buy chickens and keep on improving our not-so-newly-bought house without me, I know that I'll have lots of time to do that soon, and right now I'm just focused on keeping the momentum going and keep on having a wonderful time, because this exchange year has truly been the best year of my life - at least so far - and I hope to enjoy every single moment until it ends.