I have been in Liverpool for a few hours now and I am soon to start my 3rd and last year of university. This means one thing, summer is over and I need to get back to reality. As usual this is something I've been looking forward to the last month or so but this time I actually feel that I wouldn't mind having summer for a few more months. Not because I don't miss my friends but because I've made so many new friends that I'm now leaving behind.
This summer has been the best summer I can remember because of many different reasons. I've had a lot of fun, learnt a lot, got many new friends and enjoyed almost every minute of it.
The summer started with an internship for MDA's office in Tel Aviv. I had no expectations at all since my internships I've had before had been kind of crap and I started without having any idea what I was going to do. I quickly learnt that if I was persuasive enough they were willing to accept my ideas but I also had to work for them which brings me to the first point.
1. If you want to achieve something, you have to do it by yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.
I also got to experience to work in an office together with people that I didn't know from before and that I could leave when I left the office but I noticed that even when I left the office these people were my friends and I wanted to get to know them. Even though some of the things I did during my internship wasn't fun I still wanted to come to the office. This is something I never experienced before and it showed me the second thing.
2. You can enjoy your job if the people around you are people you care about and they care about you.
This summer has been the best summer I can remember because of many different reasons. I've had a lot of fun, learnt a lot, got many new friends and enjoyed almost every minute of it.
The summer started with an internship for MDA's office in Tel Aviv. I had no expectations at all since my internships I've had before had been kind of crap and I started without having any idea what I was going to do. I quickly learnt that if I was persuasive enough they were willing to accept my ideas but I also had to work for them which brings me to the first point.
1. If you want to achieve something, you have to do it by yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.
I also got to experience to work in an office together with people that I didn't know from before and that I could leave when I left the office but I noticed that even when I left the office these people were my friends and I wanted to get to know them. Even though some of the things I did during my internship wasn't fun I still wanted to come to the office. This is something I never experienced before and it showed me the second thing.
2. You can enjoy your job if the people around you are people you care about and they care about you.
After a month of interning I was headed to my 2nd MDA course. This course involved learning how to put in IV's, deliver babies and a lot more medical knowledge than the previous course I did. This time I found myself in a room where the majority of people where studying pre-med or were about to start and this time I didn't know anyone of them. I had to study extra hard to understand the anatomy and I had to face the fear of putting a needle into someone but I decided to live after Nike's slogan "Just do it". Having to do something I was really scared of but at the same time really excited to learn taught me
3. Sometimes the things that are scary are the things that gives you the most pleasure once you've done it.
After a week of hard work we finally finished the course and I ended up being in top of the class even though I thought I failed the test. I realised that going around thinking I failed was pure stupidity because it only made me worry about something I couldn't change.
4. Sometimes the underdog can succeed so don't underestimate your ability to achieve something you want.
The summer continued with volunteering and this time I could do more and I also dared to do more. This wasn't challenging because I was afraid of not knowing what to do but it was challenging because I had to work hard to even get to put in my first IV since there were other people that wanted to do it too.
5. If you work hard for something you will get a chance to do it so don't just give up.
After the course I had one week were I managed to squeeze in some more shifts, spending time with my nephew and my sister and helping out instructing. Then I was headed back home. After spending two months in Israel I realised that every time I go there I make more friends that I don't want to leave but I have to. One thing comforts me though, everytime I go back they are waiting for me to come back. It shows that friendship doesn't disappear just because there is a distance.
6. Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance but never in heart.
Once at home I had time to melt all the impressions I got during my time in Israel but I quickly realised that I needed something to do. Which made me take up on the offer of doing an internship at an award winning radio station. I had my interview and I thought everything was decided. I was going to start. However, the board of the company thought differently and it took them 3 weeks to make a decision. During this time I sat at home and went slightly mental. Even though I ran a 10K run and took up knitting I quickly got bored and needed to keep my occupied. It made me miss university even though I 2 months earlier just wanted to leave that place.
7. Sometimes the things you used to hate become the things you miss the most.
After 3 weeks I finally got to start my internship at Radio1. I had told myself that I wanted to work within TV but getting this experience made me want to work with radio. Everyone in the office where really nice and open to get to know me and teach me knew things. Radio1 share the same floor with 3 other radio channels and even though I only was there for 3 weeks I manage to see how different presenters work differently and how they structure their shows. It didn't matter that I was there a short time because I wanted to learn I was willing to get up at 4 in the morning just to learn more.
8. You can learn things quickly if you put your mind into it and let other people teach you what they know.
During these 3 weeks I instructed a CPR course for Swedish MDA. This was my own initiative since I wanted to practice and I wanted to use the knowledge I had. I had to put a lot of work into preparing the course since I had to translate the course into Swedish. This made me learn the material even better. 
9. It's never wrong to repeat something you already know, it will only make you know it better.
And here I am sitting in my house in Liverpool thinking of the summer I just had. Even though it feels like it was years ago I started my internship in Tel Aviv I still appreciate every single moment of the summer. I've learnt a lot about myself and things that I hope I can remember when I'm having a hard time. I'm now starting my final year in university and even though these pretty red lines are things that everyone should think about they are mostly for me because if I practice as I preach only the sky is the limit. If even that. As cliché as it sounds, you can make most things happen if you realise it's up to you. I had an amazing summer because I worked for it. I have everyone who contributed to it to thank of course but if I never decided to take the first step on board that plane to Israel.
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