being home :caitlin

so i have been home since june 22nd. its a few hours short of 2 weeks now. being home is A LOT harder then i thought it would be. I had one day off before starting back to work and i have just been really really busy with life. I enjoy being home but I miss all of the freedom and independence i had in Germany. Sometimes i feel like i got younger again! nonetheless i love being home. Today since one of our best friends ben is flying home and probably already home I have been thinking about how close i really was to all of the others. Its so strange when you want to make a joke that only exchange students would understand and you just can't because no one around u understands it anymore! One of the good things about working though is a lot of germans come into my job. I get to speak a few minutes of german every week just to not forget everything. its really cool talking to the germans too because a lot of them think i am german which is an amazing feeling. but yea, all in all its ok being back. This year is germany really opened my eyes to all the opportunities life offers and as my friend ben said, god definitely helped us through it and saved us in all the times we were stupid. I am seriously considering studying in Berlin now for college because it was just a city that i fell in love with from the first time i ever saw it. well i am gonna try to sleep so i can work my 7th day in a row!

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