Finally... the LAST Day

Hi, it's Illinois Panda.

How are you doing? I'm pretty excited about going back to delicious Japanese food, meanwhile, I'm not feeling like leaving here, to be honest. I have very ambivalent feelings.

Just 272 days ago, I landed in America and started a new life abroad. I had never lived either alone or in the dorm. This long trip embarked in the dark. I couldn't either speak or listen to English at a daily conversation level, and I had no experience learning something only in English and communicating with people who have other races, religions, and cultures. Everything I touched was new to me. The fact that I upload as many as a hundred blogs describes how surprising everyday life here was. I was anxious about the new life and literally struggled to live from one day to another. However, as I didn't realize, that life was changing from peculiar to usual to me, and I unconsciously found it comfortable. Get up in the early morning, do exercise at a gym, take lectures with scrubbing sleepy eyes, study (and sometimes sleep) at a library, hang out with my friends, go to a bar... That life was really exciting and gave me a fun time. I made friends with a variety of friends here and visited many places completely different from the places I had been to. If I hadn't decided to study abroad in America, I couldn't experience all of them by any means. I'm fortunate to meet amazing people and have invaluable experiences here. 

This is the end of the exchange program, and I'm heading back to my home. However, the relationships, experiences, and memory I've got here will never disappear. They will surely take me to a wonderful life.

長い間ブログを読んで頂いた皆様に、心より感謝申し上げます。僕の私生活を垂れ流していただけなような気がしますが、みなさんに少しでも楽しんでいただけていたら幸いです。

1年間お付き合いいただきありがとうございました。ではまたどこかでお会いしましょう。 See you guys. Have a wonderful life!