New Beginnings

Telling your homestay family you are going to leave is a bit like breaking up with a significant other.

At first you feel completely liberated, excited to be free and independent again. Then doubt starts to set in...was it the right decision? You did have some really great times together, and their not terrible people. Of course, their all confused and don't understand why you're leaving them. They get angry and say hurtful things or beg you to change your mind. You get sad and scared, wondering what the world will be like without them there all the time.

But then you move into that hot little rooftop apartement and all those feelings of fear and regret disappear.

I will have to get used to the smell of sheep though...