uprooooted

Einstein once said « Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute, that’s relativity”.  Using time to explain relativity was a pretty good idea, as I realized minutes do not always and everywhere last the same 60 seconds.

Indeed it has been almost 9 months now that I settled in Turin and it feels like I arrived about a week ago only. But reality strikes back and it is June now, and I’ll have to head back home soon. Before that, I’ll have to see my other foreign friends leave after a last party. We hope it is just a goodbye-party but we know it may well be a farewell-party.

It is the same weird sensation almost everyone feels when going abroad to study for a year. A proof (if needed) that we spent some great time in here. The worse is that I was aware of this! I had been through this before, when in Milan for a year, it’s not like I didn’t know… I even warned all my friends in Turin “beware the end of the year guys, it’ll come faster than you think!” And still I have been tricked, again.

I usually say that if the whole experience was longer, maybe it would be less extraordinary. I am still convinced of that, but I could have handled a few months more, especially with some people who arrived only for the second semester. But that’s the way it goes. Or I can try and find 1.21 gigowatt of electricity, a bit of plutonium and a second-hand DeLorean…