New home vs. real home

Being away from home is not the hardest thing I have done, but I am also not that far away from Finland. Naturally I miss my family, friends, our pets and all my homes. I also miss all the things I can't do here and places I am used to going - the movie theater Orion, the library I usually go to, all the supermarkets and foods I am used to, a proper oven (I don't have one in my kitchen here), to go to a dentist or a hair salon and be sure I can be understood, to use euros and actually know how much I am paying for things, and so forth.

But those things seem so small compared to this experience. This is so worth it - I meet many new people from Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, USA, even from Finland. I get to know a new city, have a chance to live at a new place with a different language, to get to know a new culture. And the greatest of all: I get to study something I love and meet new people who wants to or already works within media, culture and film. I also learn to take care of myself and know that I'll do fine.

One of the hardest things when moving here was to turn my relationship into a long distance relationship.

A loving relationship full of closeness and much time spent together, that is now mostly taken care of through Skype, texts and letters. But I knew the risk, and the first weeks were the hardest. And now it has been over a month, which doesn't sound too long.

But I have to be honest; sometimes I wonder what I was thinking. In the end I still believe it's worth it, and 4-5 months abroad is not too long. And it certainly doesn't end our relationship, only makes it stronger ^^ Even though I was unsure in the beginning. I don't only learn new things in this new country, I also learn new things about everything I left back home.

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