Today is the day. I really felt like it would never come! I am writing this blog post as I am sitting on the plane to Boston. I go to Boston today and tomorrow for orientation with all CIEE exchange students, then tomorrow night all Spain CIEE exchange students fly to Barcelona for Spain orientation.
My whole last week was pretty sad saying bye to everyone. I am really excited to go though! My last day yesterday, and this morning were filled with several tears. I started my last day off watching my last Doctor Who episode with Matt Smith playing the Doctor (I get very attached to characters, so I am a little embarrassed to admit that my day of crying began as I watched the end of the episode hehe). As I was doing my final packing, I shed some tears every hear and there, especially when friends and family called and texted me wishing me good luck. My friend Logan ran some last minute errands with me so we could spend as much time together before I left. My parents made me breakfast for dinner, which is my favorite! Unfortunately, I couldn’t eat much of it because I’ve been kinda nervous. My neighbor, and also best friend, Emily came over with her family and her friend Erica to say their final goodbyes! She also informed my mom and I she will be visiting my closet frequently to steal clothes. EMILY IF YOU”RE READING THIS NOTHING BETTER BE MISSING WHEN I GET HOME!!! Next, I went to Starbuck’s with one of my best friends Kurt. We decided to make our names on our cup Amy and Rory, two of our favorite characters from Doctor Who! Kurt also came over to hang out and play my ukulele named Lilo with me for the last time:( I really wanted to bring Lilo with me to Spain, but there was no way she would fit in my suitcase. I said my goodbyes to Kurt and then met up with my best friends Logan, Jenn, and Alyssa. We went to our friend Vernon’s for a little so I could say bye to all my friends there. After, we picked my brother Jake up and went on our final nightly Taco Bell run, which we do VERY frequently. My friends spent the night and we stayed up really late just talking and hanging out. Even though I had to wake up at 4:15 this morning, I don’t think we went to bed until around 2. I am surprisingly not tired..... yet.
This morning was filled with A LOT of crying as I said goodbye to my brother and my friends. My parents and I stopped at Jo for the Road, my dad’s coffee shop, so I could have my final drink before I left! I also couldn’t eat from nerves, so my mocha helped my hungry stomach a little. It was extremely hard saying goodbye to my parents at the airport. Only one parent could come to the gate with me, so my mom did. I don’t think I have ever seen my dad cry but when I said bye at security he was, which made me cry even harder. Then when I boarded the plane my mom and I hugged and were crying really really hard! It still doesn’t seem real that I won’t see them for 5 months though.
I am apart of a Facebook group with all of the Spain CIEE exchange students that have been in Spain since the beginning of the year. When I got on the plane a boy in the Facebook group named Parker messaged me asking when my CIEE group will be in Barcelona, for him and the other exchange students in Barcelona want to come meet us! As I’ve talked to the students in this Facebook group, and read their own blogs, I have discovered they all become really close and often travel Spain to visit one another. I even have been invited to different parts of Spain to visit some of them already! They also have been very kind and helpful offering advice, and answering any questions I have. It makes me extremely excited to meet the other exchange students in Boston. It’s also cool, yet a little weird to think within the next weeks I am going to meet so many new people from several different places that I will most likely become really good friends with!
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