There\u2019s an episode in \u2018Friends\u2019 where Rachel moves out of the apartment, starts crying and yells \u201cit\u2019s the end of an era\u201d. That is exactly how I felt leaving Jacobs. Even though it was only four months, I felt a sort of sorrow thinking of leaving. So many people asked me how I felt to leave and every single time I answered simply with one word: bittersweet. I missed my family, my friends at Rollins and my home that I really wanted to go back and yet that meant the end of my study abroad.<\/p>\n
The amazing thing about Jacobs University is the diversity there, I met so many people that I will most probably meet up with in future travels. I already have plans for the summer and several people from Dubai that I met there that I can see when I go home. I know it wasn\u2019t a final goodbye to all the friends I made there which eased the process more.<\/p>\n
I have been back for exactly a week now, celebrating Christmas and catching up with my family and I realized the biggest thing is the difference in culture again. I am in Bordeaux right now until the 30th<\/sup> and I will be back in Dubai after. Now that I am back in France I am getting back used to the more open mentality, the greetings of the two kisses and not hearing German everywhere is a bit shocking too.<\/p>\n Even though it was a short trip, I feel as if I have grown a lot these past few months and made memories that I will cherish my whole life. One thing I will say is that at the end of the day, I am glad that I go to Rollins permanently because as much as I loved Germany and Jacobs, the educational system was unorganized and not as advanced as Rollins. I am so happy I was able to have the opportunity to experience this and be able to even make this comparison. I would recommend a study abroad to practically everyone, being able to travel and explore is such a privileged in life and I can’t wait until my next adventure. Tsch\u00fcss Germany (bye Germany).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s an episode in \u2018Friends\u2019 where Rachel moves out of the apartment, starts crying and yells \u201cit\u2019s the end of an era\u201d. That is exactly how I felt leaving Jacobs. Even though it was only four months, I felt a sort of sorrow thinking of leaving. So many people asked me how I felt to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jacobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}