Goodbyes

I can’t believe it’s only two days now before I leave. This will most certainly be the longest amount of time I’ve ever spent out of the country but it will also be the longest trip I’ve ever been on and every minute that I get closer to it, these things become more and more evident to me and it’s beginning to blow me away just thinking about it. Having to say goodbye 90 different times to the residents at Ardenwoods was difficult enough but then I was faced with saying goodbye to my friends which I had no idea how to go about doing. Whether it was Megan, who I’ve known for seven years or Maren, who I just met in January, or my college friends I’m so comfortable with or Michelle and Katie and the other people I work with whom I consider friends though we don’t hangout that much after work –I left everyone after wishes of god luck and pleas not to forget to come back and every time I had a sinking feeling in my gut as the fact settled in me that I wouldn’t see them for almost five months.
I also have at least a couple friends I didn’t get to see and some that are graduating in May (including a few of those I didn’t say bye to). This is all relatively new to me and I’m having a hard time processing it. I know I’m going to miss a whole lot while I’m gone but I’m both a little curious and also a little afraid to find out what I will miss the most once I’ve been over there for so long.
To everyone I may not see again (or won’t be seeing for a very long time most likely), I wish you all the best of luck in your lives and I hope maybe someday when we’re older we’ll find somehow to catch up. To everyone in the Whee (and also Angie) we need to have a big throwdown when I get back. And to everyone who doesn’t know what they’re going to do without me, I wouldn’t be going anywhere permanently unless I could take you with me ;-)