Failte,
Studying abroad makes you feel like an adult. A real adult. At least when you come to Stirling. Because you travel alone to this new place, and you have to do all your own shopping and cooking and cleaning. There are good sides and bad sides to all that. Shopping and cooking for yourself means you can buy whatever you want, eat whatever you want but you also have to plan everything each week to make sure food doesn't go bad. It seems little, but it's actually tiring to plan what you're going to eat each week, and to remember to bring your food list with you to the store when you go shopping.
Also, money. It really makes you feel like an adult when you can slowly watch your money deplete. It is great and all, making memories. But making memories costs you. I would suggest bringing more here than what SU says because the price of everything is upped but there is less of it. So in the case of food, you end up having to shop more and spend more. Paired with anxiety, it definitely is not fun watching your money slowly leave your bank account. There is this strange adult-feeling doom that you feel coming over you. I don't like it. But I have a feeling it is the way I'm going to feel all the time once I graduate from college. So in a way, studying abroad also prepares you for adulthood.
I'm getting to that point in my trip when I'm thinking to myself “Wow. I only have a month left.” Thinking back on the time I've spent here, its weird because in the moment it feels like time passes irritatingly slowly. Like when you are working on an essay. But later, when you look back at it, everything feels like it happened two seconds ago. It's funny how our mind does that to us. Makes us wish time went faster and then making us wish time would slow down. Or even better, if time would once in a while just stop. If time would stop, I would be able to sit and enjoy Scotland without worrying about essays or going home or making friends. I could just sit and be present in the world. Sometimes I think that time isn't on my side. What's the point if in a few months you just have to leave it all behind? The point is that you make memories. Sure, memories cost money and take up time, but it is worth it. In the end, I know I'll be sad to leave. I'll be thankful for what I experienced here. Because memories will stand the test of time. (Oomph. Cliche. I know. Sorry. But it's true!)
Beannachd leibh
Studying abroad makes you feel like an adult. A real adult. At least when you come to Stirling. Because you travel alone to this new place, and you have to do all your own shopping and cooking and cleaning. There are good sides and bad sides to all that. Shopping and cooking for yourself means you can buy whatever you want, eat whatever you want but you also have to plan everything each week to make sure food doesn't go bad. It seems little, but it's actually tiring to plan what you're going to eat each week, and to remember to bring your food list with you to the store when you go shopping.
Also, money. It really makes you feel like an adult when you can slowly watch your money deplete. It is great and all, making memories. But making memories costs you. I would suggest bringing more here than what SU says because the price of everything is upped but there is less of it. So in the case of food, you end up having to shop more and spend more. Paired with anxiety, it definitely is not fun watching your money slowly leave your bank account. There is this strange adult-feeling doom that you feel coming over you. I don't like it. But I have a feeling it is the way I'm going to feel all the time once I graduate from college. So in a way, studying abroad also prepares you for adulthood.
I'm getting to that point in my trip when I'm thinking to myself “Wow. I only have a month left.” Thinking back on the time I've spent here, its weird because in the moment it feels like time passes irritatingly slowly. Like when you are working on an essay. But later, when you look back at it, everything feels like it happened two seconds ago. It's funny how our mind does that to us. Makes us wish time went faster and then making us wish time would slow down. Or even better, if time would once in a while just stop. If time would stop, I would be able to sit and enjoy Scotland without worrying about essays or going home or making friends. I could just sit and be present in the world. Sometimes I think that time isn't on my side. What's the point if in a few months you just have to leave it all behind? The point is that you make memories. Sure, memories cost money and take up time, but it is worth it. In the end, I know I'll be sad to leave. I'll be thankful for what I experienced here. Because memories will stand the test of time. (Oomph. Cliche. I know. Sorry. But it's true!)
Beannachd leibh