OSLOVE 2013: Ha det bra, Oslo!

Today is my last day here in Oslo. The exchange went by so fast and it is time to go home. I am ready to leave, to see my friends and family, to celebrate Christmas and New Years eve, to start my internship but also to process the wonderful happenings within the last 5 months. I am not realizing yet that I won't meet all those friends and aquaintances on a regular basis anymore. Now it lies in our hands to keep the contact, to find some time to visit each other and remain the good friends we've become in this time so far away from what we consider home. I hope that even in our busy lives back home we will be able to spare some free time to make it happen.

In the beginning of this blog I wrote that I am critical towards calling exchanges the "Best time of life", because it increases the personal expectations and also decreases the value of our lives at home. At the end of my life I wanna be able to say that I literally "had the best time of my life", without decreasing it to a few happenings as my exchange. There is so much more to come and already many wonderful things happened. But what I can now say is that it has been a wonderful and amazing time. I loved every second and would encourage everyone to go out there and explore the world on your own. It's about seeing other places, meeting people with different backgrounds, letting strangers into your life and make them friends, having full responsibility for the new life, exploring academic differences and detecting your own strength also in times of being homesick or missing some beloved ones.

Since this is my last day I think now it is time to thank the people I met here. You know who you are, but to all of you a big thank you. You made my time here very pleasant and inspired me with your great personalities. I hope you have a great start into your upcoming adventures, whatever they will be. Continue putting smiles on other people's faces, as you did with mine :)

Another thanks is needed for my loves at home. Knowing that I have a good environment to come back to makes leaving a lot easier. I am really looking forward to see you!

In the end I would like to give you an impression of my favorite moments during my exchange (thanks for the photos to everyone). The O'Boo group is majorily represented in this, because you guys made my stay so special. Will miss you lots. I hope our reunion is not too far away, Marius and I will welcome you in Mannheim for sure :)