Oh no! My time in Sweden is almost over! Oh yes! I will see my friends soon again! No! What about my friends here? Yes! Getting a normal life again! No! Yes! No! Yes! Aaaaaaaaaaargh!

At the moment there is a storm in my head. I really miss my life in the Netherlands, but I know I will miss my life in Sweden as well. They are both such excellent lives! Today, I will leave for my two-week travel through Sweden and Norway, and I'm really excited about it. But I know that, when I go back, I will have to leave all this behind!

If I look back on my EVS-time, I feel I've been through a lot, both good and bad things. It started with the youth center where I worked, Zokker, which wasn't the place I imagined it to be. Add the homesickness, the darkness and the lack of Swedish friends, and you will get the first 6 months here: not very good (although I had fun with my friends as well. It wasn't all bad! We went to Stockholm, Kopenhagen and Estonia!).
Then in March, I went home for a short visit, and everything just changed. I saw that my friends were still my friends, and that they didn't change so radically. This made my homesickness grow less and less when I got back. In this time, I also stopped working at Zokker, a choice which I have never regretted. I think I should have done that a long time earlier, but I wanted to stay and proove myself, and not dissappoint the nice people. Oh well. My new project, Real Life, kicked serious ass. I felt useful and  happy, and I think I was appreciated by the people there as well. Even though I didn't work there as long as in Zokker, I see it as my main project in Sweden. Too bad it stopped as well.
Meanwhile it was getting lighter and lighter, I accomplished the impossible (I made Swedish friends, and nice ones too!) and my life in general was getting better and better. Greta and I began to swim again, we grilled a lot (blegh, I can't see another 'korv') and summer came. My film project was nice to mess around with for a while, and now I have holidays.
When I walk around now, I already see that the people and buildings will soon just be memories. This sucks, but at least they will be good memories. People, I love you!!!!!