I’m getting in a cab to go to Dublin airport in less than half an hour. After what was probably the most exciting semester of my life, I’m just now realizing how sad I am to be leaving this place.

I miss home, and I am so ready to go back and see and talk to the family I’ve been disconnected from all semester. It’s good that I was semi-cut off, though, because it really gave me a taste of what adulthood will be like, or rather, an extreme of it.

This was a very small program, and I also didn’t realize until yesterday how attached I’d grown to the people here. When I was hugging the boys goodbye it was all I could do not to cry in front of them. I’m never good at keeping in touch with people I leave unless we are constantly pressed back together through school, work, etc. but I swear to god, I’m going to do my damnedest to keep my connections with these people. I love them all too much.

I have pictures from our music video premiere courtesy of Hot Press magazine and my friends who posted them on Facebook. Once I get settled in back home, blogging will be my regular thing again. :)

If there is a piece of wisdom I’ve obtained from this semester that I could deliver to you, it would be, Do not be afraid. Go into the unknown without a single familiar name for 3000 miles with nothing but a couple of suitcases and your desire to grow as a human. I certainly have.

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