Goodbye Europe

This will be my final blog from Europe.

As I write this, I am sitting on the train on the final leg of our trip, and tomorrow will be much of the same, only this time on a plane back to the USA.
We had an AMAZING lunch with Evelyn’s family before we caught our train back to Frankfurt, and I was so sad to leave their home, their amazing cooking and hospitality, and the gorgeous region of Bavaria, Germany that they live in.

This trip has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I feel like anyone who spends six weeks in Europe feels this way, but for many different reasons. This summer, I got to see things that I had only learned about on television, or in the movies. I got to go to places that no one has ever heard of, and experience European people in a way I never had before.

This trip has enabled me to look even more forward to what life has to offer me when I return to Texas, and feel that I am better prepared for it because I understand and have seen much of the world. The generosity that Evelyn’s family has shown me affirms that there are good people all over the world, willing to help and host and go out of their way for a perfect stranger. I have learned that I am capable of traveling and navigating the world on my own, something that is gratifying and makes me feel like I can handle anything.

This trip has made me appreciate home in a way last summer did not. Perhaps it is that I am about to start a whirlwind three years of law school, or that I feel like I finally have things figured out I didn’t before, but there has never been a truer statement “there is no place like home”. I am really looking forward to it.

So where does my blog go from here? If people are still willing to read it, I will blog every couple days or so. There will be a lot of changes: My move to Oklahoma, starting my 1L year of Law School, living alone for the very first time. I have to say that there is something cathartic about writing about what’s going in my life, whether anyone reads it or not. This blog will more than likely evolve more from what I am doing day by day, to things I am interested in or learning about or find funny or interesting. I hope anyone who can continue to live vicariously through the life of someone who has lived the gypsy life in Europe for the past six weeks, and who is about to become a seriously boring law student, will continue to do so!

Thanks for reading

Kate

P.S The picture above is of us with Evelyn's fam!