Finding Contentment apart from Circumstances

I am spending this semester in Ireland, studying abroad at the University of Limerick. I am incredibly blessed and so thankful to have this opportunity. I came to Ireland, expecting to have the most amazing experiences of my life. Everyone who I had talked to or whose writings I had read convinced me this was the greatest thing that could happen in my life, or so it felt like. When I got here, though, all I really wanted was to go home. I really struggled with everything being a little bit...