I must admit, though, I did have a few reservations about
what going home would be like. A lot has changed since the last time I was on
English soil, and I wondered whether life back at home would have moved on
without me. These reservations were unnecessary, however, as I quickly
established that Queen, country, family and friends were just the same as ever,
and it felt as if I had never been away. That’s a very comforting feeling! It
appears that you really can always go home
again.
Three weeks is actually quite a long time, so I had many
grand ideas of how productive I would be during my time off; how many books I
would read in preparation for next year at uni, how much time I would dedicate
to researching possible dissertation ideas and how much French and German
grammar practice I could get done in that time. In actual fact, these plans
kind of went out the window, replaced instead by 21 days of doing...nothing.
But hey, sometimes a girl needs to spend her time on the sofa, eating miniature
heroes and watching an entire season of ‘Homeland’ all in one day! I wasn’t a couch-potato
for the entire holiday, though. There was still plenty of time to catch-up with old school friends, many-a visit to and from family, and even
a cheeky trip up to Leamington to visit some uni friends and remind myself of
what it feels like to be a student.
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Students, eh?!
And as the holidays began to draw to a close, I found I was
really excited to pack up my stuff again and head back to the Bergstraβe. I’m
really, really looking forward to the next few months over here, and all the
exciting adventures they may hold. Sitting on the train on my way home from the
airport yesterday, I couldn’t help remembering how I felt on the day when I
arrived in Bensheim for the first time way back in August. Stepping off the
train then was a massive leap in to the unknown – a scary one at that – but my
journey home yesterday couldn’t have been more different. Bensheim, too, was
just the same, everything the way I left it, and it felt as if I had never left
there, either! I guess it proves that you can take a little bit of home with
you, wherever you go. That’s why I hope that whatever I end up doing as a
career, (I was going to say ‘in later life,’ but potentially that’s only a
couple of years away –ahhhh!), has an international dimension to it; living
abroad has definitely given me the travelling-bug!!
So, my alarm is set, ready to wake me up at the crack of
dawn tomorrow morning, my watch is finally back on German time - I envy you
British people with your extra hour - and it is back to school in the morning.
Genuinely, I can’t wait!
Here’s to a great term.
Emily
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