the one with BYE BYE Bergen

Tonight is the last night I'll be typing on a laptop in Fantoft Bergen. I'm heading to Lofoten the day after -- a backpack trip spending like 26hrs on bus and ferry, all the way going to the up north part of Norway.
I don't know what I'm supposed to think right now, it feels like another random night -- I was watching movie in Mich's room and talking, well except that all my stuffs are packed in suitcases now leaving my room emptier and tidier than before.

Term exchange is always short --- too short to really feel like a local. I met people, people met me. We passed by each other, even when its like a smile I raised to a total stranger. Well, I have existed in this city for five months of my life.
Leaving stoke me month ago when seeing people exchange in back home or elsewhere started posting pictures on facebook of farewell parties and stuffs. Also, when talking to those who have been exchange terms before now back home back to their normal lives, I felt this nostalgia of exchange among people.

I didn't have this awareness of being local after being exchange. Then after being local, I found it interesting to observe local when being exchange again. Exchange can never be local -- it sounds sad and true, and I used to feel upset about it. However, what matters is not how local exchange can be, instead what matters is how positive two of them see this as an issue and willing to make bit difference.
Exchange life is once in a life time experience because it is the unique part of one's life. Not only because it changes people, but also the reason why people are changed (well at least during the exchange period).

I still cannot think of a good reason why I chose Norway. I still don't know if given another chance I might have gone for Sweden or Holland. But that probably wouldn't matter. I've been this far, and I have done mostly my best. I love this ending point as my next starting point. And taken the best out of this half year, hopefully I'd be seeing more and further in the future.

I thank everything that life has brought to me, that I've known bit more than before about who I am and what I want to be. Truly, that is the way people grow up, isn't it? =)
Byebye Bergen, I might be back for a holiday or so.