Finally made it home! After 117 days abroad and 12 hours of travelling in one day I finally made it back home. Now its been 4 days now that I've been home and it feels so good to be back. Now Germany will always have a huge part of me because it taught me so much and now when I see it on the map I won't be able to not smile just thinking of all the things it showed me and gave to me and taught me. I look back now to my sophomore year of high school when I first took German as a foreign language class. It was hard, and I just could never seem to grasp it and excel in it. I got by and was able to get into the upper classes but always struggled. And along with that, I never, ever, not one bit did I look at the map of Germany and think maybe one day I'll make it there. I didn't even think i'd use the German that I learned in my future. And of course looking back I smile thinking how far I've come. Now of course people ask how my trip was and of course the only answers I can give are short and sweet ones because of the immensity of the true answer of explaining it all. But it's not a problem to sum it up by saying it was "good" or "the trip of a lifetime" because these things are still true. And coming back it was so weird at first, because I felt so distant, but it was the surprise welcome home party that my mom, the one and only Kathryn Fagan and my lovely girlfriend, Jenny Kenyon set up for me that it all snapped back. It was so great to have a small group of friends come together to welcome me back home and just fire up the grill and have an amazing night together sharing moments and memories. I couldn't of asked for a better place to come back to and even more for better people to come back to. I do think of Germany often of course, but I don't think I let the idea manifest itself to deep because of the fact it was temporary. I do miss it terribly and hope to be able to return to Germany again and maybe even Marburg, but I knew that there is still this life that needs to be returned to and I was content with that. I am happy to have shared so much with people all around the world that I hadn't even heard of until 4 months ago, and all of them will also have a special place in my heart. All in all it was "the trip of a lifetime", it was a milestone in my life that will affect all the things in the future that I pursue and aim to achieve. While I was over there I decided to switch my existing German minor to a German major and hope that in the future I'll be returning to Germany, maybe not for studying abroad, but instead for business and connecting with the German people. I thank you all for baring with me and my numerous amounts of delayed blog posts and my incredibly amateur comedy, and also thank you all again for supporting me and giving me the advice that I could use while abroad. This may be the end of the Germany study abroad adventure, but by no means is it the end of the adventure I've been on my whole life.
"Every end is a new beginning"
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