A new year has come!

2015 is almost over! Sweet December, let me say goodbye to you with huge gratitude.

For me, the end of the year is always a season full of new expectancy. Hopes and desires are intensified and the wish to change and make things different increases.

I always get more emotional at this time of the year because it's a moment when you can analyse what has been done so far. We look behind, check what has passed, what you have lived and you start thinking about new projects, plans and promises. 

It is like if our head and heart could make a retrospective in a second. Some memories make us open a big smile, while some other ones cause chest tightness. 

Inevitable. I am taken by feelings that don't even have a name at this time of the year.

2015 was a great year. I had the chance to live with an amazing host family in the US, to see 4 different seasons so intensified, to see snow for the first time, to study English, to travel to so many different places, to improve my driving and cooking skills, to meet new and very special people, and most specially, to learn how to love in the most pure e genuine way. 

I've lost some things, some people, but I've gained so many others: a new love, independence, a second place to call home and also some extra kilos.

It was a year of achievements, but most of all, a year of learning. I had to live, for the first time in 26 years, without my family. I learned how to take care of myself and solve my own problems. I became stronger and responsible, even if sometimes I cried, I grew up to my best potential. 

I lived. I lived for real this year. 

And besides being excited and anxious for a wonderful 2016 in America, I am going to miss this past year. Thank you for surprising me every day and for bringing me so much joy, 2015!

I hope that next year can be even better and hope I can still live all my dreams.

Happy Holidays, everyone!