Goodbye!

Here is an Irish blessing for all the girls that were on Erasmus in Haderslev with me. My time here with you has been great and I will not forget any you!

May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Goodbye and God Bless.

Summary of my ERASMUS Stay

Considering the fact that this is my final weblog entry during my Erasmus stay, I have searched for something that sums up my time here. However, in doing so I came across a poem that I studied years ago, by Robert Frost. The poem, to me, completely reflects my feelings about coming on Erasmus before I left Ireland and now my thoughts on my travels before I return home again. I must admit that coming on Erasmus was not something that I was overly looking forward to, infact I was nervous about missing my friends and family and living with people that I had never met before (apart from Kerri-Ann of course). Nonetheless, now I know that taking the 'road less travelled' has been the right choice.

"The Road Not Taken"

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.