Kelly #86: Reverse Culture Shock

It was definitely a difference going from living with younger classmates who could legally drink to ones who were older than that but could not drink. When I was in England I got questions like how did I like being able to legally drink. They forgot that I was 21 when I studied abroad so I could already legally drink in my home country. Someone also asked the tried and true question of why young adults in the U.S. can vote and die at war when they are 18 but cannot drink until they are 21. Still, I do not know the answer to that.

And even though my roommates my final semester of college did not want to go out on a week night, didn’t stop me from going with my other senior classmates. In fact, my final one was the only semester I had in college where I partied the most, took the most classes, and managed to get my only 4.0 of my college career. Now I wish I had that same kind of stamina.

Winter break of my senior year. Although I was sad that my studying abroad period was over, I was relieved to have a month-long break before returning back to my home university. Looking back, I don’t even know what I did during that break, besides sleep and get over the cold and ear infection I sustained my final week of studying abroad.

Since my next semester was my final one of college, it felt like there was a lot of pressure to make sure everything was ready, especially with the need to get a job looming. One thing I do remember that I had to do was that I had to sort through my huge pile of books I took from my book publishing internship and distribute them amongst my friends and family. That and posting photos from my travels were certainly more fun than working on my résumé but that had to be done too. So now we say good bye to the study abroad period of the “Kelly” comics and move into the final college comics.