On your own

Going back to normal is certaintly something I'll have to get used to. After introcamp everything feels kind of like a blurr. Days go by either super quick or super slow, but I try to enjoy every single one of them anyway.
Every day life is great, actually. School is boring, yeah, but that's school everywhere in the world. My classmates are great, all of them. We had a thing like a previa on Thursday before Sports Dag (don't even get me started on having to dress up as a nun and play sports, so much fun) and maybe because they were tipsy they were all super open and funny and actually talked a lot with me. It's just a really nice feeling to feel like a part of something. Hygge, if you know what I mean.
Not even is gold while being so far away from Argentina. It's very common to miss, specially when you get homesickness. I do feel like Denmark is my home already, and I don't ever want to leave. But it's normal to sometimes miss the people back home whom we've known for our entire lives and the commodities of our old routines. It's hard to miss everyone you love, or to struggle and not have the people that always supported you with you now. But you get used to it, being on your own during hard situations makes you grow up, it forces you to. And that is such a positive thing. To realize that you can overcome what life throws at you on your own, making your own decisions and owning up to your responsabilities and mistakes.
But even when you're "on your own", you're never alone. You find yourself surrounded by other people who understand what you're going through because they're going through exactly the same things... and that's your exchange fam. Nothing ever compares to them. People from every corner of the world who you can relate to and who are your home away from home. Just like the friends you make in your host country and your host fams, of course. Every single person that makes you feel welcomed, that shows you even a tiny bit of interest, that lets you now that they care and are there to support you, they all show you you're most definitely not alone.
This past week I realized that no matter how much I love my people back home, I have to focus on myself. This year is everything I have been dreaming of for the past two years and now that it's here, I had to let go of what was holding me back in Argentina to fully and truly enjoy it. And I did, and I feel so much lighter now. Even during the hardest days, the dream come true overcomes everything else.
Have fun, be safe, don't get caught!

Overwhelmed

Last time I posted was two weeks ago and believe it or not, a lot can happen in just two weeks.

Week one of not posting was pretty uneventful, or maybe it was so outshined by the second one that I just don't remember if anything important happened. Yeah, I received my card (and blocked it, all within two hours of having it, yay) and school was as usual really good and really boring. It's just what it is. 

But the real reason I didn't post last Monday was because I was at the introcamp. A whole week with 165 other exchangers from all over the world who are living in Denmark for the year, just like me. Good thing was that it was in my city, Berringbro, so just like some people had to take 3 or 4 hours drives to come, it only took me ten minutes. 

I can't explain every single thing we did during that week because it would literally take me a lifetime, but let me just say it has no comparison. I had high expectations for the introcamp, having heard so much about how cool it was just made me more anxious. But it seriously surpassed anything and everything I could have ever imagined. At first, it was because the place was really cool and I was really happy with the room arragenments. Then, it was because I got to spend a lot of time with my already and new friends but at the same time I got to learn some danish (Yes, it's hard. No, I don't suddenly understand everything people say). But all in all it was just because I was completely happy. I don't think I have ever felt (sorry to all my people back in Arg, I'm just generalizing) so at home as I did this past week. I made friends that will always be a part of me, I now have anecdotes and inside jokes to laugh about for a lifetime, It's crazy to think that I've known this people for such a short time and still they have already affected my life in such a positive way. Every single exchanger I have met in my life and specially those I got to spend the best week of my life with have shaped my life and left a piece of them, mainly as memories, with me. There's no way I could have experienced something like this without Rotary, this is truly life changing.

That's why ever since the introcamp finished a few days ago all I tell my other exchange friends around the world is that they have to enjoy every second of it as if it was the last time they'll ever have, because it is. And not fully enjoying this and not realizing how incredibly lucky and privileged we are to be experiencing this is honestly the worst thing anyone could do. 

I'm not very inspired, and this is definitely not my best post ever, but I'm so overwhelmed with how happy Denmark makes me that I don't think I have enough words to express myself.

Also, today marks one month since I said my last goodbyes to my friends and (Cambria stop laughing) "s/o"... It's been hard, but like I say in every post, happiness outweighs every negative thing posible.

Have fun, be safe, don't get caught!