Conclusion

It’s actually hard to believe. For four years now I have been a student of University of Dundee and for four years I’ve been flying to uni. Not every day, of course. This semester is very special though. It’s the last one. Four years ago, when I was landing at Edinburgh airport, I felt as if I went alone to an unknown country far far away. And I was right – I didn’t know much about Scotland and the distance between Dundee and Karvina felt absurdly infinite. Except back then I didn’t know one very important thing: when you get used to something, learn the routine and do this or that all over again, at the end all of it becomes completely natural. I do not find anything extraordinary about planning my journey home months in advance or about me travelling thousands of miles all alone, without anyone’s help, just like that. I do not find anything special about my professors or friends speaking in a different language or that I study a course I find fascinating, with the best in the area. I do not have a problem not living with my parents, and relying all on myself. What I DO find absolutely out of ordinary is exactly the fact that all of this is so normal to me. When I was five, I was scared to travel by train because I was worried we might miss the right stop. Now, nearly twenty years later, I walk alone at an international airport thinking how boring it is. When I was twelve, I could barely understand how to create a sentence in English. Now, I am reading Jane Austen in original and I am able to discuss political philosophy. The most curious thing is that I am writing my final dissertation on a topic which is fascinating (although very few people share that view with me) and I will finish my final semester at this university and get my university degree. The closer the moment when I get my diploma is, the more I tend to think about what I have achieved in those four years and how much I have changed. Most of the times I feel like I will never get the answer, and even if I did, I could never express it precisely with words. Nonetheless, I tried to do exactly this and I hope that readers of this blog at least remotely understood what kind of journey I undertook in the lands far far away.