Adapting

Sitting in my room on this rainy/snowy day looking at my phone charger with its European electric adapter makes me think of how when you live in a different country you also have to put on your adapter. Be it buying clothes to look like a local, trying to pick up colloquial speech or even tweaking your personality a bit to fit it with your surroundings. After almost 6 months here sometimes my adapter still does not function perfectly. There are days where I am frustrated that I can-t tell people what I mean in English, days where I feel like I will never fit in with the people in the street, nights where I am tired of going out to the same places in the same small town, and mornings where I really struggle to pull myself out of bed to go learn more grammar, culture or whatever it is we-re studying that day. Sometimes I feel like my Spanish adapter is slowly breaking down. This is especially true when I think of all the people close to me that are leaving in the next week. Friends that were only here one semester. This time next week almost all of the people I am super close to will be gone. And that will be the real test of  adaptation, how you deal when you are here alone. The only thing that makes it better is that my mom is coming to visit on Sunday :). I have an English student this afternoon and afterward churros with some friends and a birthday party, days like this are good because they keep me distracted and moving forward