That I have but slumbered here, while these visions did appear

January 13 I entered the wardrobe by boarding a plane for the trip of a lifetime-not only was I going to England, but I was going to study at the world's top university...Oxford! After that I have read over 28 plays, about 16 of those being Shakespearean plays, I have attended classes at Regent's Park College, I have lived in an English village, I have walked MILES UPON MILES, I have seen millions of bicycles, I have seen over 8 plays, two of them by the Royal Shakespeare Company, I have gone on a whirlwind tour of 4 major cities in Europe plus two smaller ones, I have hugged Paddington Bear statue in Paddington Station, I have seen WHistle Down the Wind, I have missed a tube thus getting separated from my travelling partner in Paddington Station in London, I have unwillingly participated in an anti-war protest (I just wanted to go to Westminster Abbey...), I have ridden the London Eye, I have seen Piccadilly Circus (which is NOT a circus. for those who thought that, shame on you!), I have seen Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, I have seen Stonehenge, I have done so much more that I can't even think of. Thus as I end my time in Charlbury I cannot help but think that this has been but a dream, and that I have only slumbered here whilst visions of life changing events occured.
I have just been blessed emmensly for this opportunity that I will never have again. I know that this is not the last time in England, oh no Heather O'Brien will not be kept away from Europe for too long! I know that the events that occured here have helped shape me and have added to who I am to become. I know I have changed, whether people like that or not, but I know I have done what I could. I honestly can say that I did well whilst being here.
After I open my eyes from this dream, I will be stepping out of the wardrobe back into the reality of home. Yet, like Lucy, I will have been shaped by what has occured within the wardrobe in Narnia/Oxford. I have learned from the other people on the program, the members of the Charlbury community, from academic advisors, and from life itself. The time in Narnia will pass and I will come back to it completely changed, yet I know that I have made my mark on it. As I will stand on the Charlbury train platform one last time, and look back and see the little country village that became my home, I know the Puck speech will go through my head, that or the famous demetrius line "are you sure we are awake, it seems to me that yet we sleep we dream." Thus farewell friends, thus Heather leaves, adieu, adieu, adieu!