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11 Things That Happen When Your Best Friend Studies Abroad

"Come back, be here."

Ashley Sanders
Oct 13, 2015
Belmont University
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11 Things That Happen When Your Best Friend Studies Abroad
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So much changes when your best friend crosses the pond: the time difference, the new expressions and the wild adventures. You bounce around between being totally happy for them and being crushed by the weight of missing them. When your best friend studies abroad, you go through stages.

1. Excitement

Together you counted down the days and it's finally here. Your best friend is living a fairy tale and you are living it through SnapChats and paragraph-long text messages.

2. Instagram envy

You scroll through their photographs of glamorous adventures and you get a little green. Today, they visited an ancient palace. Today, you went to the grocery store.

3. Skype tag

Your schedules are so different now that it becomes hard to find a time when you are both free to sit and chat. You text her when she is fast asleep and she calls you when you are in the middle of class. You plan several Skype dates before you finally get it together.

4. Withdrawal

All of this missing each other gives you withdrawal symptoms. You are used to having your best friend reachable basically 24/7, and now the time difference and crazy schedules have drastically shortened this window.

5. Fear

Your best friend is doing insanely cool things and you go through a phase of irrational doubt that they may upgrade to a shiny European model.

6. Reassurance

Maybe it's a late night call, a post on your wall or a long text message. However it happens, you remember, you're bond could never be broken even by an entire ocean.

7. Appreciation of technology

You have never been so grateful for iMessage, FaceTime, Skype or email that allow you to keep in touch just like you promised.

8. "Miss you" messages

You use all of this technology to talk about how much you miss each other on a regular basis.

9. Planning

You make semi-serious plans to somehow get across the pond so you can gallivant around Europe together. Look out world.

10. Countdowns

You may have started a countdown to Christmas in August. Eighty nine days isn't that long, is it?

11. The long-awaited reunion

There will be hugs, there may be tears.

Hang in there friends, Christmas is coming.

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