Good news: I have 42 new friends.
All 42 of us...
Finally back in the United States, our home soil - the place we'd been missing and talking about since day 1, 70 days ago. But now that we're back, we're here missing each other like the dickens and wishing we were just back in Europe already. Being stuck with the same group of students for 10 weeks in a foreign place really made us all really close, whether we all agreed with each other or not. In the beginning, I didn't know anybody (minus the 3 other students from Biola... that I didn't really know. Everyone else came from different schools across the country). But by the end, we each had made memories with every single one of the other 41 students... we had become like family. We saw each other every day, witnessed every mood swing, knew what made everyone smile, had been there in the easy/fun times and also in the difficult...
It’s so hard to be put in that intense of a situation with people for 10 whole weeks and then to suddenly be stripped away from each other. Now that the trip is over, all 42 are settling back into our different homes... all across the country. We were met with the possibility of never seeing each other again and the very harsh reality that we will never all be together at the same place ever again.
But the truth of the matter is... we're friends. Forever friends. Whether we all live together again in the same hotel again or not. Whether we visit each other annually or not. We all share the same experience of this summer of a lifetime and that's something we'll never forget.
Me and Ali
Me and Justine
Clark, Me, Ryan, Bekah (Biola crew)
Me and Morgan
Jacob, me, Mary, Greg, Christina
Me and Kyle
Me and Bekah
Me and Stephanie
Me and Mary
Me and Ryan
Me and my "Domestic Partners," M'Oakes and Travis, who kindly ate all my leftover food for me.
Me and Elizabeth (the other girl my size)
Me, Clark, Bekah
Me and Faith
Me and my "family": Lim, Me, Ali, Mary, Travis
Dear IBIers,
Thanks for a great trip and for all you helped teach me! I will (and already do) miss you!
Until we meet again,
Lizzie
3 comments:
How long was that whole trip anyways?
10 weeks!
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