Like a snowflake

"The ice was breaking and 
Love was waking in a winter wonderland.
When I felt you slip your fingers in my hand.
Now snow is gleaming and 
I'm not dreaming I know this is for real.
The love I have is too much to conceal."

I want a life like a snowflake which comes from far away to the earth. Deserves to be here, because that little snowflake stayed strong enough to face the world. It kept all its silence and beauty until it arrived here. It deserves to reach here, because after an exhausting and challenging journey, it stayed desirous enough to be different from all the others. I want my life to be like a snowflake, which deserves to be lived. 

After the most exhausting journey that I had in my life in the third term of UWCAd, I already started to feel that my snowflake is working quite hard to keep its beauty. This intense term which is full of very wonderful friendships, memories, new experiences but also full of apprehensions, makes me much more proud of my snowflake and thank it not to breakdown but managed to come to the earth.

The last days of the third term was definetly wonderful enough to forget all those "going-insane moment" through whole term. To spend all my time with the loved ones just made me remember and realise once more how much I love Duino. Now, I know that Italy is my second home. It is where I have grown up, where I felt, dreamt and hoped. 

"You'll never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for richness of knowing and loving people more than in one place"

On the 12th of December I arrived Turkey after 15 hours of travelling. Nope, I did not come from India but from Venice although it seems so ironic. I could not even sleep all way at all, becuase my excitement to see my family was just too big to fall asleep. So that although when I arrived I needed to sleep something like 11 hours, it was only so great to feel the smell of Turkey at 1.05 am after missing it for 4 months. 

Everytime I look at this photo, I still feel the same things. The smile full of happiness, the eyes full of curiousity, the ears full of advises from family and lengs full of readiness to go for a new adventure, to start to a new life.
How small I was when I came to UWC.

    

The same day after one year. I even had a beard heheh :)