My name is Sophia Whitman Sandmeyer, if you want to make it
even longer you can add my middle name, Carmen. I just got back from spending a
year abroad in Germany and I’m not sure if I’ve completely gotten over the
culture shock yet. Leaving everyone after spending a year with the friends I
made there was probably the hardest thing I had to do this summer, other than
painting my mom’s classroom, which was a horror I do not want to describe. I met so many amazing, fabulous people
there, including some who were as nerdy as me when it comes to Broadway
musicals. We spent a lot of time on Broadway.com
geeking out over new songs and musicals. When we didn’t go there I would be
painstaking helping them convert and translate recipes for cake pops on foodgawker.com or addictively looking at
page after page of Pinterest.
This is an airport/goodbye/crying/ picture where my lovely
friends (and family) dropped me off, and lots of promises of skyping and
endless emails were made. I had to carry that poster on the plane. Talk about
awkward situations with weird seatmates. So considering that, I guess if I had
a superpower it would be teleportation so I could avoid the sketchy Skype
connections and awkward pauses where their mouths are moving but you cant hear
a single thing and to be able visit all of my new friends who are doing their
foreign exchanges this year in places way cooler than Germany.
For this year I am mostly hoping to not forget everything
that I learned last year and to manage taking chemistry and physics at the same
time. If I was really trying to be an over achiever I would say my to get drivers
license as well.
-Sophia
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