Going back home

Going back
You have to prepare yourself mentally to go back in your country. Which means, leave the kids you took care off, leave the family you lived with and leave your friends you made and with who you shared great moments all along your year.
You wander what it’s gonna be when you’ll get back in our country. It’s a weird feeling. You are very happy to see your family and friends again but at the same time you are sad to leave your new friends and this new life.
As long as you are not close to the end, you won’t realize the great year you’ve just spent. And hop! That’s over, you found your old life again.

Ilse, Leonie, me & Bianca at the restaurant In my case, that wasn’t too difficult. Almost all my friends had already left or was going to leave right after me. I didn’t have that feeling of regret or of leaving friends behind me. I also wasn’t really sad to leave my family. And anyway, I know that someday I will see all those girls I met and I spent a wonderful year with.

I had that feeling that I finished my duties, I did what I had to do, I finished my mission which is to speak english correctly.
And the adventure was not over, I had an other project going back home, it was to go to South Africa to live few months with one of my good south african friend I met in USA. There is no end. After an end there is always a new beginning!

And I was really impatient to see my friends in France I had been keeping in touch with all along my year. When I came back, I realize that nothing had changed. That was weird, like I never left. Nothing has moved, nobody has changed. There was just me, me and my memories and pictures in my mind.

Assessment
About my job, I’ve already said it, it was absolutely uninteresting and so boring. Moreover, this job had no relation with the professional life I want to have. However, I realized that manage adults it’s a little bit like manage kids with different words, but it’s the same principle. It’s probably gonna help me later !

Personally, it’s amazing. I met so many people, I had to adapt myself to an other culture, an other family, far away from home. Humanly, I think I am more mature and broadminded.
I traveled a lot (making sacrifice and saving a lot, you’d better know what you want !), saw different cities, different states. My eyes and my memory are full of pictures and beautiful landscapes.

Narkis,me & Anja Even though my relationship with my family wasn’t that great, I regret nothing at all because I feel I lived something unique that few people experience.

I encourage everybody to leave home and go abroad for a long period and enjoy yourself. The best as the worst deserve to be lived and you can only take advantage of it, no matter what even if it’s hard sometimes. None experience can be regretted.
Good luck everybody…