It's been an incredible experience. I've done things and seen things. I've got to experience all that I wanted to experience since I was a child. I have even made some incredible friends along the way, but there is one issue.

This is not home. This is not waking up at one in the afternoon and going with your friends to eat lunch because you're not working every day all day. Yeah, I have class, but class wasn't this strenuous. I had more adventures while I was home and more times of just life standing still there. These? These were my best memories.

Homesickness could be a thing. But when I saw these adventures, I pictured them with different people. I pictured them coming with me to Florida, and most importantly, I pictured my adventure as a whole differently.

Don't get me wrong, I love the opportunity I have received. I heard an excellent quote that states, "maybe the dreams that you come in with, may not be the dreams you leave with."

Now has this stopped me from making memories? Absolutely not. I still will go out and have fun, my world will keep spinning because their world keeps spinning as well. However, home is home.

So if you're reading this and you are either about to go on a new adventure from home or about to get away from home and feel like you can't wait to leave, remember the best parts of your home. Remember the ones who stayed up with you until 4 a.m. just sitting there talking to you about your life. Remember the adventures you went on that made you stronger and made you who you are today. Whether your adventures are everything you've ever wanted or absolutely nothing that you pictured it would be, remember home is where the heart is. I didn't see it while I was there, but I definitely see it now. Everything I have ever wanted and/or needed was right in front of me all along.