Einunddreißig Tage verbleibend

31 days left. One full month. Four weeks and four days.

There's gonna be alot of these countdown posts on here the next - well - few days as I come to terms with the leaving of this program.

Laurel is one of the Canadians that is in the same program as I am, and today was her last day in Freiburg before she heads to Estonia for a week or two before heading home. She's the first one to leave, up next is Leslie on Wednesday.

It's sad, because for the last year we've been each others friends and family, and now people are going their separate ways. The worst part is that there's 21 of us from five different universities, making on average five or six students per university, and thus Province (one university has only one student from it). Seven of us are from UBC, two from Victoria, four from Manitoba, one from Acadia in Nova Scotia, and seven are from Trent University in Ontario.

Actually to be accurate, April was the first one who left the CYF but that was in late March, due to financial reasons. Laurel and Leslie will be the first of the group to leave due to our time here expiring.

I sit here and listen to the Smashing Pumpkins, who always make me feel nostalgic as it is. I think of how much I'm going to miss it here, but also how badly I'm itching to get back to North America, see New York, go back to Seattle, and finally to Vancouver.

Tschüß!