Coming home and final thoughts

Finally heading back to the states; it has been an amazing journey with unexpected complications although we have been able to handle it. Yesterday I spent the day in Chateau de Versailles and was marveled by the sights.  The grand Trianon and the petit Trianon were also beautifully adorned. It was all about the glit and glam.  Paris is now on my list of favorite cities, and I was quite surprised to find that the French were quite nice. I was even taken aback when someone at the train station helped me up the stairs with my bag. I had always heard horrible things about the French people, but I must say that I didn't experience it other than the occasional evil stare. I woke up early this morning to make sure that we would have enough time to get to the airport, but once we reached the train station we discovered that the train was delayed due to a suicide on the tracks. Christine was panicking that we were going to miss our flight. When the train finally arrived we had to fight our way into it and everyone squeezed inside, I had never seen a train that packed even in my experiences in New York. Luckily we did make the flight and had a couple of minutes to spare. Looking back on the whole trip, I come the realization that I have grown as a person and I met some great people in our hostels' (most of them were Australian). Traveling on my own was great so major complications,only a couple of scares. I definitely plan on backpacking through Europe again and I especially wish to go back to Germany. Hopefully I can do it again as soon as next year or maybe I can just study abroad.  As a way to end this amazing journey through Europe and self discovery, I would like to thank Mr. Lucien and Dr. Kleine for the advice and help provided in the class. Without their knowledge the trip would have been much more difficult.