The End...

The last few days my parents came to visit me in Oslo and to take me home (probably to make sure I wouldn't "accidentally" miss my plane) I spend my last days in Oslo taking my parents around the snow covered city in temperatures of -13°, showing them all of my favourite spots, the statue parks, the lake outside the city, botanical gardens,... and Enjoying a years worth of amazing Oslo coffee! The evenings were for cleaning out my apartment (a job straight from the pits of hell) and various goodbye parties, which were equally as heart wrenching as fun. Bye class, bye Erasmus family, bye Oslo.

Now that I am back home it all feels like a dream. And what a wonderful dream it has been. And now I'm stuck re-watching pictures over and over again, celebrating the amazing memories of the past semester.

I will miss the damn good coffee, the space and freedom, the nature with amazing landscapes and SNOW, the school where students own coffee machines and anything is possible, being surrounded by the cutest language, the rare days with sunshine and amazing sunsets and much more! But especially the great company and an even greater city.

But as every exchange is supposed to do I also learned a lot. Like ,as I mentioned before, cooking (oh boy, I have missed my microwave). I learned not to let a car preheat for to long, and consequently we all learned how to solve it! (Thank you very kind grumpy Norwegian). After many times of meeting the ground from up close, I learned how to walk on snow and icy roads, however my ice skating skills still need some work... While waiting outside for 2 hours, I learned how cold -7 actually was (definitely should not have forgotten my gloves that time). At school they thought me to do my own thing and do it good! (Amongst many other things of course) So somehow I learned to be proud of my work, my little beautiful mess:

https://liess-first-project.webflow.io/ (#ShamelessSelfPromotion)

So once again I find myself feeling bittersweet.

Even though I'm happy to be back home to my cat and my fries. I'm super sad to have left (I mean it's not like I had a choice) But I'll be back! I'll go back to my happy place. A huge thank you to everyone who made this adventure the best one yet!

So... can I go back now? Thanks, bye.