Well, not quite. Even though tomorrow is our last day in Florence and I will be home in 5 days (wow that's sad) I still have so much ahead of me. Being in Italy and traveling to Barcelona have made me itch for more foreign experiences, and I have a feeling France and England will add to the feeling. Every town has different customs and norms, and every country feels like an entirely different world. I have been so fortunate to be able to experience so many cultures and I feel like it really has changed me, though exactly how it has I'm not quite sure yet. But I guess that's the amazing part--you absorb different aspects of different cultures and the more you experience the more you grow, which then feeds your desire to want to experience and learn more. There are definitely aspects of this trip I wish would have been different and sometimes that I need not remember (for example, getting water poured on us on the bus last night for no reason other than we are American girls), but that's all part of the experience too, realizing that nowhere is going to be perfect and no experience is going to be flawless. I feel like I'm getting very sentimental and reflective, but that was the whole point of this trip. I just hope (and will try as much as I can) that I can take every experience home with me and use them to continue learning about myself and others and the world around me.
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