Insight From My Best Friend

I am lucky enough to have a couple of friends studying abroad all around the world at the same time as me, but I am even luckier to have my best friend studying abroad.  My best friend, of literally my whole life, is studying in Costa Rica for 6 months.  She has been there for about 2 weeks or so by now and we stay in touch by emailing a lot.  Our goal is to reply on the same email the whole time, until my exchange is done so when we are both home and reunited we will read through and it will be like a diary we wrote together.  In an email between us we share anything that comes to mind so it will be fun to look back on every little thing that popped into our head while we wrote an email to one another. Obviously a classic thing teenage girls would do.  But anyway, she tells me that she is having a great time and loves being in Costa Rica and that she loves her host family and that they are trying to teach her everything they can. Which is amazing, I am so happy for her! Hearing that makes me feel so much better about my exchange.  She also tells me that she feels lost at times and that it is difficult and she becomes homesick sometimes.  It's hard to read that, first because she is my best friend and you never want to see someone you care about so much have a hard time or feel lost and second because I am just thinking, well that will be me in a week or so.  But then again, this is all expected which makes me feel better and I hope it makes her feel better too.  Words cannot explain in anyway how grateful and lucky I am to be able to share an experience like studying abroad with three close friends and one being my best friend.  Just to be able to share adventures and experiences that we had and to talk about our host families together is really cool.  Also to be able to talk about things like being homesick or feeling out of place in the first couple of months.  To have a close friend that is going through the same exact things makes it so much easier to talk to them then a friend at home who really couldn't relate at all.  I think it will make my exchange that much better and easier to not have to go through it all alone.  Although we are all in different places around the world I feel like it will still make a difference. 

Other than that I have 2 more full days at home which means lots of packing and emotional filled days! I can't wait to start posting about events that happen in CHILE! Thanks for reading, and keep reading and following my blog!  It will get much more interesting once I am actually in the country! I can't wait!