We are planning a trip back to the States in October. I did event planning in my previous job, and thank goodness I did because I am having to use every single one of my skills to organize flights, hotels, train tickets, doctors appointments, lunches and visits with family and friends. Of course we love every minute of it, but we always leave with the mixed feeling that no one got enough time and yet we are completely exhausted.
Throughout the year I really don't get homesick too much (although I know I did just have a little bit of it a few months ago). However, as we start to plan our schedule in the States and figure out who we can see when, I start to realize just how long we have been gone. At times it feels like the blink of the eye and at other times it feels like an eternity. It still shakes me up a little to tell people that we are just finishing our fourth year here in Brussels. As Kyle points out, we have lived in Brussels for as long as we were in college. Knowing what a formative time college was, I can't help but wonder about how many different ways I have changed in these last four years. Perhaps it will take the hindsight of time to realize all of the changes because the changes in me in these last four years have seemed much more subtle than the ones at UGA. It comforts me to go home and realize that not too much has changed (so I don't feel like I have missed out on too much) but I can't help but wonder what I have missed out on that I will never even realize.
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You'll be in my neck of the woods...and just in time for the leaves changing. Does Belgium get the fall colors on the leaves?
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