Challenges/Change
I wake up. All around me, a scenery of palm trees and exotic plants. Sweat has become a permanent second layer on my skin. Even after 8 months of living in a tropical country, my body still has to do a lot of accustoming. Going abroad on exchange was one of the biggest challenges for me. The crazy thing is that with time you can get used to pretty much everything. It feels weird holding a euro now, my hands are used to the feel of the slightly bigger colones coin. Being on exchange means packing the essence of your life into a suitcase while simultaneously leaving half of it behind. I packed my favorite pants, and left picture frames of my graduation. Things that were so essential and important to me had to be left behind. Things I thought I needed. Yet now, I have found a bunch of other important things here in this new place, and it turns out I never needed those picture frames anyways. Maybe for a person with anxiety they were just a way of rooting in place. Some kind of safety....