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It Is So Hard Leaving Your College Friends For A Semester

I packed up my stuff and headed overseas to begin my study abroad.

Samantha Scherer
Sep 07, 2016
Western New England University
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So recently, I packed up my stuff and headed overseas to begin my study abroad. I knew that this would be a great experience and it is something I have always wanted to do. I thoroughly enjoy travelling and this gives me so many opportunities to do just that. But I also knew that it was going to be difficult leaving behind all of my friends back at college.


I have wanted to do this particular study abroad program since before I even applied to the school. I went to visit and when I heard about it, I fell in love. I knew that if I went here that I would have to study abroad and do this program. What I did not expect was to find so many great friends during my first year of college, which makes this a difficult situation.

All of my friends knew and supported the fact that I wanted to do this from the start. But when I got accepted and had my interview, it became official that I was actually going to Europe. Wow! That is crazy. My friends and I would sit there at lunch and talk about it a lot. But it is crazy to think that back then, it was just a discussion about missing each other. Now it is reality and I am across an ocean with people I have just started to get to know.

It is so difficult to say that I wish I was with my friends. That sounds bad to me because here I am, in a different country exploring so many different things and yet I just want to go back. Yes I want to go to so many places but part of me just wishes that my friends were here or that I was there. Seeing pictures of all of them together is like almost heart wrenching in a way. This feeling bubbles up inside me and I just wish that I was there. I do not even want to leave Europe though. I just want to be with my friends wherever and whenever. It is a confusing feeling I will tell you that!

But like I said, I cannot wait to explore more of Europe. It is just that I wish my friends were here to do that with me or that we could just be together all of the time somehow. Video chat is not enough and even that is hard because they are all together and I am just siting here on my bed watching them together. And yes that may sound bad because I think a lot of people would kill to have the opportunity to study abroad for a semester. But I just wish they were here with me.

I miss them and I cannot wait to see them again.

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