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I was going to have a tear-jerking last post about how my study abroad experience in Germany changed my life... but I wasn't quite sure when one chapter ended and another began.

When I returned to Madison, it sort of felt like I never left. Like I suffered from amnesia and slept Rip Van Winkle-like through the whole last year. Friends were still friends, State St. was still State St. and Science Hall still shown brilliantly as I approached it from Langdon.

Yet the hardest fact to face for me has been easing up on my expectations, not of how America or Madison should be with me in it, rather what I should be like in Madison. I had high hopes of being an exotic breed who cooked, read, studied and exercised like a responsible cultured adult... however the wild college kid has not been tamed. It is a somewhat confusing time for me. What I can say though is that I have so much more perspective and control over my life than I have ever had before.

Clarity through writing...? yea right. For now, please follow the continuing random thoughts and adventures of Genevieve Schaad in my new blog:

Blog of a Madison Girl