(Some of the Genève family...read on for details)
Things have been great in Switzerland and the time has been flying by, I can't believe my internship is 2/3rds of the way over and that my time is Europe is already half over, it isn't a good feeling. I'm sure I'll be happy to see family and friends and get back to school, but I have this nagging suspicion that I'll be wishing I was in Genève the whole time. I realized how sad I'm going to be to have this trip end this weekend, most of the interns went out of town (off to Zermatt or Zurich for the weekend) so I was left with the usual group (or family as we like to call ourselves), and I wouldn't have had it any other way. The weekend was filled with all things ordinary: watching movies and tv shows in Jack's room, walking the streets of Genève, markets in France and going to the Natural History Museum, and it was perfect. As we were enjoying our lazy weekend, Heidi and I realized that we had just a little over a month left of our study abroad, after discussing this at some length we then realized that not only will we be leaving Europe, but we will be leaving all of our new Ohio State and U. of Washington friends as well. While I may have only known this group of people for 5 weeks, I feel like they've always been apart of my life...I think there's something about study abroad that makes you connect with people faster than in any other situation. Heidi and I began questioning what our lives will be like when we won't have someone around to refer to as Zambo, or Jack to make us laugh or Chris to look like he just walked out of a GQ ad, and we decided that it won't be good. So the question for now is, how to study abroad forever...if anyone has any ideas, let me know.
Besides thinking way too much about the end of the trip, I've been making more travel plans and am so excited for the upcoming weeks! Jack and I bought tickets to go to Prague, which is the one place I REALLY wanted to see, and I cannot wait, and a group of us will be heading to Zermatt, Switzerland to see the Matterhorn and tromp around the Alps, I can't wait. Things are also in the process of being planned for my family's trip out to Europe, we have the hotels in Genève and Paris picked out and are starting to look for a place in Rome. Daniel and I have been discussing our travel plans as well and have been looking up islands off the coast of France and Spain to go to. Part of me doesn't want the internship to end and part of me wants it to speed up just so I can go to all of these wonderful places. I can't wait!
Work has been good, Heidi and I are both building new websites for our organization and are prepping for the UNECE (UN Economic Commission of Europe) meeting this weekend and early next week. Our organization is having a side event at the meetings where Heidi and I will be special rapporteurs and will have to write a report that will be presented to the office of the UNECE, it is all very exciting, slightly stressful and extremely terrifying. It is nice that things are picking up again at the office, time goes way faster when you have things to do that don't revolve around facebook, checking your email every five minutes, or....updating your blog. Alright back to work.
I have bad news for you. a year from now you will still wake up crying due to another study abroad dream. it never gets easier and you just end up missing everyone and everything more as time goes on. I'm still waiting for the study abroad hangover to ease up and everyday I think about where I was at this time a year ago which makes life more depressing. good luck.
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