Wow where has the time gone? It has seemed to have flowen by. As I'm sitting here on the verge of departure I can't help but feel many mixed emotions. I'm very sad about having to leave this beautiful continent and it's wonderful cultures, but I'm also excited to see all of my family and friends that I have not seen in six months.
Reflecting on this trip I have come to realize a lot of different things about myself. I'm leaving here with a better understanding of myself. Which I was hoping to achieve before returning to Canada. I have growen and broadened my mind significantly since being over here. I have leaned how it felt to the minority, I have felt the unbending, deep love of families, I have become more educated as a whole, and I have changed for the rest of my life. Reflections is a key tool to understanding yourself, and knowing your mind it a very powerful tool. To harness the minds power is an incredible gift, one it which I hope to accomplish.
Being on this trip has given me some great insight of what I needed to change about myself, in order to become the person I want to be. I have had the great experience of having many different cultures to influence me over the past few months. I sincerely believe that the people I have met on this trip have impacted me to and incredible degree. I can't particularly think of one main person that I've meet that has impacted me greatly. It's the small things you learn from them that leaves the lasting impression. Sometimes and often the people you meet while traveling will be a brief incounter, just a passing by, but then you meet the ones whom you will remain in contact with for the rest of your life.
Learning about cultural differences and similarities have shaped my perspective on the world as a whole. Creating many lasting impressions that I hope to carry with me for the rest of my life. At the beginning of the trip up until now, I can see such a change in myself it's incredible. If someone would have told me that this trip was going to change my life I would not have thought it possible. I knew I would gain many valuable lessons, but I did not account for the way they would change me. Change is always welcome in my life, and I hope to keep broadening my mind with more traveling of the world.
This trip has solidified the fact that I want to keep traveling the world. When you get out of your comfort zone and break through that initial nervousness, you really begin to realize that there was nothing really to be nervous about. If someone would have told me before I left that Kristy and I would become closer, I probably would not have believed them. I knew deep down that we would remain friends but I did not antisopate that we would grow closer as friends. We have been there for each other the entire trip even when things got though. I am glade to say that we have beat everyone's assumptions that we would not remain friends after this.
This is an end to a chapter in my life, but it is also the beginning of a new one.
If anyone has any questions or comments I would be more then happy to hear them, either comment below or drop me a message on Facebook.
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