Home is where the heart is!

This is my first blog after I have opened my eyes in real world. A world which belongs to me and where I belong. After living ten months of dream life in America, I said goodbye to my host state New York on June 12th. I remember how hard it was to say goodbye to my natural family when I was leaving Pakistan even though I knew that I am going to meet them in one year. But it was even harder to say goodbye to all my new relatives in USA without knowing that when I am going to see them back. Well with hope of visiting my love ones' soon I headed toward Washington DC for re-entry orientations. To be honest I didn’t miss anyone over there but my host family, I was so busy in my tight schedule and having fun with my old friends that I didn’t miss anyone. I know it was so rude of me but I knew that I am not going to get this time of my life back and I have to live every second of it. 5 days in DC were so hasty with a lot of activities including visiting monuments, White house, shopping, senate meeting and much more. Finally the day came when me along with 69 other Pakistani exchange students were supposed to leave the US land. We were going from Dc- Dubai and then Pakistan. On June 17^th, we left American university at 4:00 pm for airport and our flight was supposed to board around 9:35pm. But because of computer system shut down, it got late and after waiting 12 hours desperately they finally announced at 4:28 am that our flight got cancelled and we have to go back to the campus and wait for next flight which is tomorrow. Alright. Things were absolutely fine until they told me that I and 3 more people are NOT leaving tomorrow. For a while I was blank and didn’t even try to understand the reason and started crying because I didn’t want to travel 13 hours straight without all my friends and say them goodbye 2 days before. Later on I figured that US loves me and want to keep me for one more day so I relaxed and next day I got to know that 5 more people are staying with us because there are not enough seats in plane to fit all 70. That was good news. We enjoyed every single moment of our last day and finally got on plane at 5:30 on 19^th. From DC we flied to Kuwait. It was an 11 hours long flight. The most adventurous thing that happened was, after 2 hours of being in plane, the weather got worst. It started raining so hard and according to me the lightening came in to the plane (somebody was doing flash photography). On the height of 11,976 feet our plane started trembling. For a while I was so scared that I took out the security info paper and started looking where the life jacket is. I revised all the swimming tricks my host parents taught me whole year and looked at all the flight information (height, speed) (just in case if I am safe, I am going to tell new reporters). That was silly of me but it was fun. After a while our plane got smooth and everything went well for the rest of 9 hours. We landed on Kuwait airport and took off for Bahrain airport in one hour. Then there was a 9 hour stay in Bahrain and FINALLY we took off for Pakistan. I got home on 21^st of June at 6:00 am and met my family. I was having Abe Lincoln hat on and had a toy monkey in my hand that everybody started laughing at me on airport with joy. My family welcomed me warmly and world here was so strange. I felt like I have never been to this place. There was a question that did everything changed in a year or did I change? Specially when I got here my best friend, my brother was sick. He got typhoid and he couldn’t even get up from bed. Everybody was so busy in him and so was I. He had a constant 105/106 temperature and could not eat for 5 days. Yesterday he got done with his treatment and thank God he is feeling better now. He is the one who understands me the most and life here would be even more fun with him. The worst thing I am facing is the jetlag. I can’t get sleep at night and want to sleep whole day here. I get up at 4 in the morning saying that I am hungry and right now its 5am and I couldn’t sleep so decided to write my blog. I apologize from everyone for being late to write. Life here is also good with delicious food, my family and my own land but still I miss everyone from my dream world. I miss USA and yes I will go back there. Soon.