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Wednesday 19th March 2014
Real student real experience. Student from Argentina tells Facebook about his UK student exchange story
66 days ago that I am in England, half of this beautiful experience. These 2 and a half months that pass here were some of the best in my life, I met spectacular places, friends that I made is that I'll never forget, I got a family more than 10,000 kilometres from my house, I have a new brother who seems that we knew for years and also learned a lot about other cultures apart from mine as others see us to us and also to see that they are not such as to as everyone says it is.
Being an exchange student can change your life, you go to a place that you don't know, you live with complete strangers, and above all, you learn to manage you alone, without the help and protection of your parents. As time goes by, you realize that this strange place you already know memory, people with which you live are like your uncles and is not so difficult to live without your loved ones as you think.
I'm not going to lie, there are times where you miss galore all what these used to live, especially in the early days, but to realize as well that the these passing, all that disappears.
It's weird to think that I'm on the other side of the world, which formerly lived a block and a half from my school and now have 40 minute journey in two groups all morning to get there, that the day I left Argentina to 40 ° and when you reach England 6 °, having to share my room with someone who I did not know and the biggest difference of all, speak another language every day.
An Exchange, is something fast, brutal, beautiful, spectacular, unexpected and constant change. It is not easy to explain, it's nothing to as you waited for it, but all he wanted, also can become very frustrating, there are things that you no longer can do and things that you don't understand, and times at which you want to say something or you totally say otherwise or an insult.
Now that 66 days left me to return, I realize how difficult that will be saying goodbye, so I prefer not to think about that now and enjoy what I have, than before that my account was finished, it was as fast as the first half.