I'll go on
Atlanta, december 15th, 5pm, I am leaving the Oglethorpe University campus, like so many times before, going to the airport, like a few times before. The weather's sunny, like always, warm, like always, traffic is horrible, like always and I am so familiar with MARTA, that I can still help a few people with the trains. The only difference today, is that I will not be back in a few days. My semester of studies abroad comes to an end, and even though I have been trying to anticipate that, even though I have been through that before, it seems completely unrealistic, like being in a bad dream. I actually feel half sad half weird, standing on the platform, looking at the very familiar landscape. I had my habits here, I loved it, and I can't believe four months passed by so quickly...
An hour later, I feel completely different, listening to Disney songs on my mp4, walking along Atlanta airport terminal D, drinking a Coca-Cola. My flight takes off in an hour, will last an hour, so within 2 hours now I will be at Orlando airport, just a few minutes away from the place where magic leaves. So sad to leave Atlanta though so happy to go back to Florida for a week : mixed feelings, like I never experienced before. At 9:47pm my bus arrives at Walt Disney World, welcomed by the Epcot fireworks grand finale. Weather is nice and warm, Florida feels good, I am just insanely happy.
Orlando airport, december 23rd, I feel weird again. I have checked my luggage, I have my boarding pass, I am having a last Burger King meal, and it is time, I am leaving the heaven that Florida represents to me. What makes me feel so weird though is not so much the fact that I am going away, but the place where I am going... Paris. An hour later, my plane lands in Atlanta where I am going to stay for less than a hour. I am so familiar with this airport that it feels extremely weird to be here, speaking my last words of english, and not leaving to go home (home being Oglethorpe) but waiting to another flight that will take me away from my favorite country...
During my flight I will have tons of images passing through my head, tons of memories. I had been waiting for this semester abroad for the last two years and a half, I have been enjoying every single day of it. It was the opportunity to re-experience something I had already been through in 2009, but having a second time is an opportunity to make it better, enjoy it better, not to redo the same mistakes and discover a new place... I loved Atlanta, the people I met there, the classes I was attending, the life I had there, the habits I took, I generally loved everything. Dreams came true during these four months : World of Coca-Cola, Walt Disney World for Halloween and Christmas, Disneyland Resort, Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Wicked... Not to mention the everyday-life pleasures such as wearing shorts all the time, going to the movies, eating a whooper, having a walk around a big city's Downtown area...
December 25th, Lille, France. Merry Christmas... or else, not so Merry, actually. Waking up at home had me confused and lost for a few seconds, and then, I remembered. It was exactly the same feeling as when you wake up in the middle of a beautiful dream that should never end, except here, the dream had last 4 months (or even 6 months, july and august were pretty nice too). Living in the USA should have been unrealistic, but it became everyday life for a while, and now being "home" feels unrealistic... Honestly those few days have been hard. It was kind of like being back from Narnia, and realizing you actually have a real life somewhere else, not bad, but not as exciting and fun.
But still, life goes on. After a short Christmas break, including a great New Year's Eve weekend, school started again with new projects, new classes and new challenges for the next weeks, months and years... This post concludes my American Adventure... for now. I will get back to blogging about movies, books, everyday life and anything worth writing about.
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