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My advice? Go to Prague
I'll never get tired of this viewWow, how fast this semester has flown by. It’s incredible to look back on the things I’ve done and seen while studying abroad and I’m experiencing a kind of disbelief that in less than a month, I’ll be back in the States, where ordering food, getting around, and making conversation are almost effortless.
When I said I was going to be studying abroad in Prague, most people asked me why. “Why not Paris? You’ve taken years of French, aren’t you going to use it?” my roommate asked me.
“Why don’t you go to London, I hear it’s like a European New York City,” a few of my friends commented.
I didn’t want to go to New York in Europe and the euro would’ve made me broke in a month. Going to Prague was my chance to do something different, without completely taking the plunge and studying abroad in Ghana. (I think my grandmother would have had a serious heart attack.) I couldn’t wait to experience Eastern Europe while still being able to explore Western Europe. My obsession with travel and living abroad was finally going to happen and because Prague has the benefit of being smack in the middle of Europe, I took full advantage of traveling everywhere.
I can’t even fathom the amount of countries I’ve seen and the experiences and pictures I’m now stockpiling. I’ve spent almost every day here feeling lucky just to be alive and experiencing such an amazing semester, and I wish I could do it again. I’ve learned so much about myself and I feel like I have grown up in these few months. I suppose I’m a bit world-weary in a way, but I’ll never get tired of exploring.
Prague is an incredible city, strikingly beautiful and socially complex. It was a complete departure from my life in America but one I would never trade. Studying abroad in Prague has allowed me to meet some of my best friends, eat some of the best food, and make most of my friends back home insanely jealous. That’s all the reason I need to love this place.
with the semester drawing to
with the semester drawing to a close, i get a little sadder each day... i didn't really come here with expectations because i simply didn't know what would be awaiting me. fast forward a few months later, and i feel like this place has become my home. it's crazy how time flies!
I've had many moments where I
I've had many moments where I too look around each day and am overcome by how alive I feel. One feels extremely independent and proud after coming back from a tirp during which one has entered a completed unknown place, and left feeling that one has absorbed everything about it. Part of me wishes that I weren't going to be a senior and need to be in New York, because like you, I do wish that I could have this experience again!