If your experience is anything like mine, meeting other international students will be the most memorable part of your time abroad. Building relationships with other exchange students is so unique because you are all going through the same things. You are all adjusting to life in a new city, meeting new people, missing home, and trying to experience everything that you can. Having these feelings in common helps you to build friendships for life. As sad as I was leaving Mannheim, I also knew that I could be excited to reunite with these friends again. I now know that I have couches to sleep on all over the world and I learned more from them about cultures and life than I could have ever learned from a semester of school.