The Emotional Rollercoaster

  When I first found out that I was going to be studying abroad in Great Britain, I was feeling a lot of different emotions, and some of those emotions changed during the course of my stay and some stayed the same. At first I was excited that I was even getting to go at all. I didn't feel like I was actually going to go until I actually was on the airplane getting here. I thought someone was going to say to me "oh just kidding you not actually going, you have to stay home this summer." I was nervous about a lot of things like flying for the first time or not making a new friends. I was put more at ease about the group of students I was going with the more we got into the swing of things. At first I only recognized faces and knew a few names in the pre-departure meetings and now that we have spent so much time together I know everyone and I feel like I had a good group of students to study overseas with. I don't think I can say that I was ever upset or mad at anyone else in the group at any point so far. A lot of us I feel were having the same types of emotions and such that we were able to express them amongst each other. I am an introvert, so I have learned that if I am mad at a situation to just remove myself for a while and go up to my room and let myself calm down so I don't do anything too irrational. There are definitely some times where I think we have grown tired of each other, but that is normal when you spend a lot of time with people. It's kind of like family, you argue with the ones you love the most because in the end they have to forgive you. Any emotions we do end up having were either rationally hashed out between the people it involved or they just wrote about it or expressed it in some kind of way and kept it to themselves. There has been a lot of anger starting among some people because of different views on different things but everyone is entitled to their own opinions and if someone doesn't like it then they can change the subject. I think just being able to adjust to how everyone on this trip acts towards different situations makes it easier to adapt to everything else that may happen because of it.