Goodbye

Thank you to everyone who made this amazing experience possible.

First thank you to my parents back home for agreeing to let me go. Leaving you guys was one of the worst experiences and it made me realize how amazing I have it at home and how you two are the best parents anyone could ever ask for. Thanks for listening to me complain, cry, and laugh and I can't wait to see you soon. 

Thank you to Aspect Foundation, first for answering my countless emails while I was waiting to find out my host family and departure date and then for doing everything possible to make my exchange great. Thank you for finding me a host family in an amazing school where I made some amazing friends. Thanks for organizing a trip for me when you found how much I was missing city life and doing things. My whole exchange wouldn't have been possible or as great as it was without you all working so hard. 

Thank you to my host family. I appreciate how much you did for me and all the rides you gave me to the post office and to my friends house. Thank you for taking me on a grueling hiking trip that I will forever look back upon with fond memories. 

Thank you to my best friends back home, especially my best friend, Alex Krish. Thank you for listening to my complaints about the smallest thing and hearing all the stories about how much fun I'm having. Thank you for making countless plans with me and listening to me get upset when they didn't go exactly as I planned in my head. Thank you, Becca Volk for all your letters. Getting those letters in the mail almost always made me want to cry. And thank you for keeping our Snapchat streak alive (124 days strong). And thank you to Christina and Katie for not killing me when I blew up our group messages with the most random thing and BuzzFeed quizzes. You guys made me have an amazing exchange even though you ever 4,000 miles away. 

Lastly, my biggest thanks goes to the friends I made here in Norway. My exchange would've been miserable without all of you. Thank you for teaching me all the Norwegian swear words and trying to teach me Norwegian in general. I'm going to miss you all so much. Thank you for taking me out and showing me things in the city or spending nights watching movies and gossiping with me. Thank you for allowing me to come on your cabin trip and see a different part of Norway. Thanks for allowing me to join all your groups. And thank you for translating all the important information in class and telling me when and where to show up for important events. I know I'll see you all again eventually and the day that we do it will feel as though no time between us has passed. Thank you for just accepting me and taking me out to places with you when you knew I had nothing to do. You were all the best part of my exchange and you guys are what is making it so difficult for me to leave Norway. I knew that I would look back on all the times I cried and not feel sad, but I never knew that I would look back upon all the times I was happy and cry.