There's No Place Like Home

The famous movie "The Wizard Of Oz" coined the phrase "there's no place like home." In the Wizard of Oz, the main character Dorothy is swept away to a magical land in search of the Wizard in order to make her way back home. Along the way she meets some memorable friends and unfortunately makes some enemies. They try to find their way to the Wizard by following the yellow brick road in order to get all their wishes granted. The Scarecrow wants a brain, the Tin Man wants a heart, the Cowardly Lion wants courage, and, of course, Dorothy who wants to go home. In a way, the 16 of us in London are all on our own unique "yellow brick roads". We each have goals that we intend to reach. We all also encompass each of the goals that are described in the Wizard of Oz. We have all already obtained courage. We gained this by the fact that we made it over here and have been living, basically on our own, for the past two months. This took courage. Our classes and studies have been challenging and improving our minds. For this we have been using our brains (obviously). Lastly we have been opening our hearts. The group of 16 of us have become very close and will remember this experience forever. Some of us have met new people who have entered our lives and hearts and will be missed dearly when we leave. Others have been feeling the heartache since we left Massachusetts. Either way, everyone has been proved how much they are loved and supported. Lastly, in the Wizard of Oz Dorothy has a paradigm shift at the end of the movie. She realizes how fast her journey has passed her by and that she is going to miss her new friends and the new place she was placed in, but she knows that home is where the heart is. Everyone of us has had a paradigm shift of some kind while we are here. My personal paradigm shift was a very large one. I have loved this experience but realized that business, and especially international business, is not the right major for me. What can I say? There's no place like home :)