This year I have accomplished and experienced many things:
- Wrote a 42-page thesis on the state of multiculturalism in France
- Graduated from CSU with a double major, honors, and distinction
- Bought a one-way ticket to France
- Started a job in a foreign country
- Been betrayed
- Lost, then regained, my social life (thesis!)
- Lived with my best friend
- Went from Denver to LA and back in one day
- Discovered Barcelona, tapas, and cava
- Revisited a friend in Norway
- Spent Christmas with my mom abroad
- Had a heartache from missing family and friends while I've been abroad or they have
- Practiced foreign languages
- Started teaching English to 200 French kids
- Pretended that I knew how to teach English to elementary kids
- Went to Canada for the first time
- Stayed in a haunted brothel for a night
- Ate berries until I couldn't eat anymore
- Saw my first rugby match at a stadium
- Tasted the best chocolates in Perpignan
- Hiked my first Colorado 14er (Mount Elbert @ 14,433 ft)
- Hiked to an abbey in the mountains
- Relaxed on a sunny beach in October
- Walked across a huge suspension bridge through the woods
- Tasted some wine, and then tasted some more
- Played at the Boeing factory with my brother
- Went flying across a lake in Wisconsin on top of a tube
- Skied, hiked, and watched sunsets in beautiful Colorado
- Had deep conversations
- Had a mini reunion from my Norway days in Chicago
- Stood on plexiglass over Chicago from the top of the Sears Tower
- Soaked in hot springs
- Snuggled with my kitty
- Swam in Horsetooth resevoir
- Went to the drive-ins
- Took my camera out to take pictures, and then put it away to let me experience the moment
- Laughed and cried, lived and loved
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