A Year Has Passed
" A Year Has Passed and now we stand on the brink, of returning to a world where we are surrounded by the paradox of everything and yet nothing being the same. In a couple of days we will reluctantly give our hugs and, fighting the tears, we will say goodbye to people who were once just names on a sheet of paper to return to people that we hugged and fought tears to say goodbye to before we ever left.
We will leave our best friends to return to our best friends.
You suddenly realize that the things that were most important to you a year ago don't seem to matter so much anymore, and the things you hold highest now, no one at home will completely understand.
Then you start to realize how much things have changes, and you realize the hardest part of being an exchange student is balancing the two completely different worlds you now live in, trying desperately to hold on to everything all the while trying to figure out what you have to leave behind. We have left our worlds to deal with the real world. We now know the meaning of true friendship. We know who we have kept in touch with over the past year and who we hold dearest to our hearts. There have been times when we have felt so helpless being hours away from home when we know our families or friends needed us the most, and there are times we know we have made a differene.
Just days from now we will leave.
Just days from now we take down our pictures, and pack up our clothes. We will take our memories and dreams and put them away for now, saving them for our return to this world.
Just days from now we will arrive.
Just days from now we will unpack our bags and have dinner with our families. We will go over to our best friend's house and do nothing for hours on end. In just days we will dig deep inside to find the strength and conviction to adjust to change and still keep each other close.
And somehow, in some way, we will find our place between these two worlds. In just days"
(the text version of the youtube clip - not complete though)
