I miss (Greece)

I miss it!!

Yesterday I booked my plane ticket back to my Portugal. Its is a lot true that I am missing so many things in my homeland, but... This is my life for the last 4-and-a-half months and I am adapted to it! I feel almost 100% incorporated in the local society in my point of view. I can go anywhere alone, I can buy things alone, I can ask for directions, I can understand most of the times the subjects of the conversations, I know some locals and some of them are friends, and I have someone in my mind 24/7 for the last month! All local things that I will miss when I return to Portugal...
Besides the local society, we have our own small intercultural society. EVS is a very big thing in whatever country you are, and Greece is no exception. I will miss so much my friends, real ones, with whom I lived and worked for the last times! But that everyone supposes...
And I already miss the most special person I met in Hellenic lands. Thanks to the Youth Center of Kalamata, thanks to Giannis and our greek lessons at Jimie's! Everything comes to an end, and the apart of lives was so difficult yesterday!... Everyday time was against us, and once again it is. Time and space, work and obligations... My EVS love has so many determining factors that pull us apart that its impossible to fight in both sides... I will never forget you!

Oh EVS!.... It is so hard to leave you... But thank you for changing me, hopefully to better!

I Remember

I remember in Portugal, some days before coming to Greece, of being reading one of the many blogs in MyEVS.net. There was the story of a guy who had a project of 5 months like me. One and half to the end of it, he wanted badly to go back to his country. Many people advised him to stay, it was almost over, in a while he would go home, he should not finish an experience like that because everyone knew he could do it. And he stayed!
In the end he thanks in something like these words: "Fortunately my friends convinced me to stay and finish my project. It would be a huge mistake to leave in the middle like that! And...do I have to say I found love? :)"
If not whit these words, something saying the same, but I am 90% sure that the last sentence its really like this.

Truth said, I never wanted to give up from my project. I loved the life here, I still do, I love it more than ever! Because I stay to the end, I lived almost all I could. And the last month is having the best things possible... I feel like the other volunteer, I lived to the end and I found love too!
It would be so sad leaving my life of the last 5 months even without this feeling... So you all can imagine how difficult it will be this way...

There are many cases of EVS love stories, even my mentor is a case of that. She was an EVS from Romania here in Kalamata 8 years ago. She met a local guy, she stayed, they got married, they live together, they work in this city...

Give me a smile! :)