Welp. The semester is over. The time has nearly arrived.

BUT NOT QUITE YET. I STILL HAVE SOME TIME!

 

My school semester has ended, meaning that I must now move on. The past couple days, my father and several of my **wonderful** siblings have helped move me out of my apartment. Lots of lifting and stacking, but it all got done!

And on my way I go! I’m moving in with my lovely parents in Calgary, about 300 km from Edmonton, my current city.My whole life is currently boxed up and all over my room. It’s a little stressful for me now, because soon I’ll be packing up everything again to move… AGAIN!

My Austria semester doesn’t begin until February, so I have a little over a month to just… hang out, I guess? I don’t have school work, and no place will hire me for 1 month. So I get to spend a lot of time on trip prep I guess. I’ll be packed so meticulously, it’ll be embarrassing! 🙂

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I’m pretty sad to be leaving Edmonton. I get weirdly sentimental about places – it’s really hard for me to leave a place I have lived in, or spent a fair amount of time in. I’ve really grown up a lot in Edmonton, and the people I got to meet have been some of the best friends and fellow classmates I could have hoped to find. And so I’m also really sad to leave so many people who I really like in Edmonton.

I feel like this picture very accurately describes how I feel this evening. That’s the Edmonton skyline and river valley – probably one of my favorite places in the whole city.

 

But I just have to remember – there are so many wonderful and exciting this waiting for me in Austria. There are many people who I will meet and learn from, places I couldn’t imagine on my own, and a life I would not be able to experience anywhere else.

It may suck right now, but it will definitely get better soon. And I really cannot wait!

 

Back to the adventure!

~miss emma.k