Two Weeks After Berlin - Adjusting to Home
I won’t sugarcoat it: leaving Berlin was hard. Saying goodbye to my host family, friends, IES Abroad staff, and even favorite restaurants is no easy task, and saying goodbye to the life and routine I created for myself was just as hard, if not harder. In these past few weeks, I’ve moved back home to Maryland and then back to my college town in Michigan for the summer. Seeing friends and family from home has been wonderful, but I can’t help but think of my time in Berlin and feel like—as I reacclimate to my life at home in the United States—those four months abroad were a fever dream.