Experience: Memories of Another Land

As I set foot on Pakistani soil once again and walked out of the same airport terminal from which I left almost a year ago, it finally dawned on me… it really was over! Until this point I couldn’t believe it. An exchange year in the US, which seemed as though it would never end at first, had passed.

While the joy of meeting my family again was overwhelming, I was hit with the realisation that life was going to change back to the way it was. The life of an American teen, with all its good and bad aspects, was something I had become habituated to.

As I went through mixed emotions and weird thoughts, I couldn’t help but reminisce all the incredible memories of those 10 months in the Unites States — a significant milestone in my life — that will never come back, and one that I’ll never be able to forget!

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