No Regrets

Don't waste a single chance.

Some people don't have the opportunities that I have.  I hope that you have the chance to go abroad and experience the exciting and unknown.  Maybe you aren't as fortunate as me to have two terms abroad.  Maybe your trip isn't even a semester long.

The first term I chose the wrong friends.  This is not to say they are bad people, but they aren't my people.  My people don't waste a moment.  We stay up too late and laugh over food or alcohol or coffee.  We make last minute plans and run with it.  We are low maintenance, but sometimes hard to keep up with.  A feeling of obligation kept me bound to my room waiting for my old group of friends to decide it was okay to go out and about.  Or not.

Despite my fears it took only a "Do you have dinner plans" and I had found a like-minded friend.  A leap of faith on meeting a total stranger and I had found another.  It isn't too late to start again. And don't find yourself obligated to those who don't feel the same towards you.

From the moment I realized my time here could be whatever I wanted it to be I have utilized every waking moment, so much so that I haven't written a word about it.  Well it is time that that is remedied.