Friends and family,

Here begins my last post of the semester which will consist of my stories from the end of the semester as well as talking about my trip that I will be taking here in a couple of days. This first part I will mainly focus on school and where I am at right now in my life currently.

This last portion of the semester has been very interesting. At around the middle of the semester, my anxiety had reached the worst point that it had since I found out that I have Anxiety Disorder this may. This pretty just means that overthink everything and sometimes cannot stop for hours, days, or weeks at a time. This makes decision making really hard sometimes, especially when trying to move on from someone that means a lot to you. I went through this in the middle of the semester and found solutions when sought out help. Needless to say, it was the hardest time in my life and I have so many friends and family back at home that I have to thank for helping me get through it. Since then, I have gradually been eliminating my anxiety every day. Today, I still have anxiety but have already worked through so many aspects of it due to this situation and experience I’ve had in Spain. I am currently so happy and very level headed. I have become more mature with how I handle confrontation and even those people that I generally don’t like. I have learned to take every experience, circumstance, and person with a grain of salt and have become more appreciative of the differences in people that everyone has to offer. Because of all of this, I have also become a lot more open minded to doing things that I normally wouldn’t. I feel free and independent and I have mainly been trying to focus on what makes me happy in order to be happy within myself again, and let me tell you it has been working. There is no reason  anyone in their right mind, should not follow their dreams because they are possible. This was one of mine since I was in Middle school and although I had to bust my butt to fund this trip as well as take out all of my loans, I don’t care because I would do that time tens more in order to have such a life changing experience again. For anyone that is considering studying abroad, look into it please. Because I never thought in a million that I would ever be here and I am so lucky that I did come. I was scared at first too of leaving all of my friends and family as well as everything I knew, in order to go to a country where I didn't even know the first language. I just kept telling myself to stop thinking about and just move forward in the process. I never believed that I would be here until about 2 weeks after being here. It was all so surreal and once I was here there was no going back. Sure, I was faced with challenges along the way, but if you don’t want to become a better or grow then yes you should stay inside everyday and not leave the country ever. But if you are like me, and wish to better yourself every single day that you wake up do not miss this once in a lifetime opportunity because will never be able to say how amazing this experience was in words. I’d also like to thank everyone who has helped fund my trip or help me in some way on this trip. As you can tell, I have really enjoyed it and would not traded it for anything and I have a lot of friends family to thank for making this possible for me.

Lastly, I finished my finals this week and in two days I head out on my last trip of the semester. I nailed my Spanish oral exam and my professor and I just talked for 10 minutes. I also did really well on my Spanish Culture final where I had to choose between writing an essay about the political revolution of Spain or Spanish cultural norms etc. I chose to write about the political evolution of Spain because that was my favorite topic that we covered throughout the semester. I wrote 4 pages fully handwritten and did really well on it! If anyone is interested in listening to me talk about the political revolution let me know I will post a blog explaining the entire thing. I gave a speech for my online comm final and ended with an A in that class. I studied for 10 hours on the day of my Ochem final and believe that I did well but I am still waiting for confirmation on that. Anyways that wraps up my semester. Stay tuned for my next one talking about my travels as well to Facebook during the next 14 days as I will be blogging about my travels as well.