London changing my prospective

London experience is pretty much over, graduation will be the last trip to the red buses city. Eight months have gone through and all I know is that I’m now back to Frankfurt, one of my homes, my lovely home.

In these 8 months in a business school with people form that side of the society I almost didn’t know existed and I really don’t belong to, I learned not to stop at the front page of a person.

I remember calling at home after the orientation day and been asked "did you make any friends?" and I almost went in to panic I started talking to my family about how hard it looked to approach someone and how everyone was wearing big brands, how ridicule different I was feeling from the people in the school.

Out all those people that looked extremely wealthy, with no problems to spend £50 for dinner, I looked for the most normal ones (with my concept of normality) so that I could spend my time with my schoolmates in the most enjoyable ways.

I changed my protectives from, I don’t go out with them because I’m afraid to spend too much; to I will invite them at my place for dinner, or I will go out with them just one day and just for a drink. I needed to find my balance in that group of people the school offered and I needed to find the best group to hang out with, being myself and without breaking the bank.

I found amazing people. I found people with a big sense of reality, people that complained London is way too polluted compare to Hungary and people who enjoyed the weather compare to the Philippines. 

Yes it was an amazing group of people and I was the one that always wanted to go back to Germany to hang out with my boyfriend and my friend. I probably sounded a bit mean and that I was not enjoying my time with them but actually they were making my staying in London the most enjoyable.

Yet packing my stuff and leaving the room I’ve been living for a school year, made me think of how many good memories I made, how many great people I met, how interesting it was to be in an international school.

I felt very lucky. I felt I almost wanted to stay.

Not because of the city of London, because of the people that make London, that made my London, the one made by international students curious to find a new challenge and never ready to settle down.

This was my London and this was what I will bring in the suit case back home.