Thinking about Home!

Frankly I don't want to have to think about home just yet. I have had the best semester of my life, meeting new people and enjoying all that Paris and Europe has to offer. Thinking about home makes me miss my family but thinking that I have to board a plane to get home makes me want to unleash the waterworks. I love Paris and France like I haven't loved anything else. Living here has given me a new perspective on so many aspects in my life. Living in Paris for more than a month has been a dream come true. I will miss everything from walking around in the evening passing by Notre Dame or sitting on Pont des Arts with a baguette and cheese.
I have traveled a lot throughout Europe and one thing remains, Paris holds a special charm that no other city holds. Everything is bundled up to make this fantasyland for a fanatic of French culture like myself. Every place I have visited, I end up saying I miss home, Paris.
The people and the culture has touched me in a way that I never thought I would be touched by somewhere other than my hometown of San Diego. Even though I have no close family here, I have felt more at home than anywhere else. Even with the restricting accommodations of small showers, small rooms, and crappy beds, I had the most amazing time with my roommate and in that "petit chambre."
My life in SD will be very different from the one I lived in Paris. It's amazing to me that it can be such a drastic change of way of living. I will have to adapt to using my car again and hopefully finding more opportunities to take some nice walks around the picturesque sides of SD. I will miss walking through the Latin Quarter through an alley and having Notre Dame be the first thing I see when the alley opens up. I will miss sitting with a large amount of people on a bridge just relaxing and eating and listening to musicians. I will miss being able to travel to new and exciting places for great prices and discovering new countries so close to me. I will miss the stinky metro that I love so much. I will miss the falafels in the Jewish quarter. I will miss walking from the Champs-Elycee to the Louvre through the Jardin des Tuileries. All of these things are special things that I hold close to my heart.
I can't wait to plan to come back very soon. My goal is UNESCO Paris.


The city of lights will always hold a special place in my <3