1 month!!

I have one month left in Scotland. What.

I remember when I had been here for one month and made this blogpost "1 måned!!" (which is "1 month" in Danish and serves as quite a good symbol of how I'm now more free of Denmark and Danish now, which is why this blogpost, the title and in generel my blog is now in English - simply because that's the language I think in), and I felt like I had been here forever. I was talking about how I already knew the busses in Midlothian better than I did in my home town, which I had lived in for all my life, and that I felt like I had already done more than I would normally do in a year.

Maybe a bit of an overstatement, but now I'm here, almost 8 months after that blogpost was written, and damn I have done a lot. In many ways, I feel like I felt 8 months ago, like I have been here forever and Denmark feels so unreal and I can't believe that I'll be returning to everything in 31 days. But in many other ways, I feel like I haven't been here for 9 months at all. Like 9 months is such a long time and it doesn't really make sense in my head that I've actually done it. I've completed the Scottish high school, I've done my exams, I've made new friends and got to know a new family all around the world and soon I'll be done with my exchange year too.
And I don't feel like I'm done. I am so lookining forward to going back to Denmark too, don't get me wrong, but it feels so weird that my exchange year is soon over. It doesn't feel like I've been here for 9 months, and even though I in the 1 month-post was trying to prepare myself for the months going by fast, I didn't expect them to fly past like this.

In my 1 month post I showed this picture of a to do list I had done with two of my friends, showing what I wanted to do in my exchange year, preferably before Sanna went home 4,5 months later from that point in time.
It's a fun thing to look back on, because it's such a small list and is not even a fraction of all the things I've experienced and learned during my exchange year, yet there is still a few things on the list I haven't done yet.
I've went to the Zoo, York, Nando's, the food market, subway and Edinburgh Castle, but other than that I still have a few things to do, I can see! Glasgow has already been planned, that's happening on the 25th, but I'm glad that I still have a few weeks left to do the other things on the list (plus the things on my up to date to do lists).

These next weeks are going to be absolutely amazing, yet probably also very emotional, because as I've seen on the exchange students, who have left before me, and I'm now feeling it myself, is that the closer you get to your departure date, the more ups and downs you have. The times, where you feel like you never want to leave Scotland, and the times, where you more than anything just want to be at home in Denmark, get pushed closer together and it's so many mixed emotions that you're not sure how you're really feeling. So mostly I just prefer to not think too much about it and just enjoy my last days here in Scotland.

One month left!