The Ending - Last Post from Spain
I'm DONE. I just finished my last exam, and I'm in the computer lab at the Uni (which I wish I had discovered a LONG time ago) killing time until I go get coffee with Laura P, the first of a few good-byes today. I didn't get to say good-bye to everyone in the program, but I'll see the Michigan ppl in the fall, so I'm not too worried. I have to write our program leaders an e-mail to say good-bye because I didn't have time to go to the Centro before my exam today.
Of all the exams, I probably feel the least great about this one ... not because I think I did all that poorly, but just because I think she's a really hard grader. I was done in 2 hrs (I just had nothing more to write and what I could have written no longer fit the context, and I couldn't go back and add it in), so I just said to myself, "All right, let it be. You've answered the question to the best of your ability, and you feel like you should have done well enough to pass..." Maybe not with flying colors, 'cause like I said, I don't think she'll be nice to any of us. But I knew what I was talking about, and the only reason I wouldn't get a fabulous grade is if I didn't go in depth enough for her taste. At this point, I'm so burnt out I don't care.
But I feel really good for all that. Beni and I said our good-byes last night, and it was a perfect "ending" to our time together...not to our friendship, becuase we'll still write and such.
Sarah, Stefano and I gave Jose our gifts last night. He didn't cry (juuust managed not to), but we got exactly the excited and happy reaction we had wanted. We know that it's been a tough year for him, and we know he's depressed that we're leaving (the reason he got a gift and we're holding out on Stefano is because we are pretty sure we'll see Stefano this Christmas when he comes to the States to visit Anna H, and because Jose is the only one really being left behind.) Even so, as we all wrote in the front cover of the photo album we gave him, this isn't the end. We'll see each other again someday, of that I am sure. And no matter what, there's e-mail and MSN to keep in contact by. So it'll be alright.
I'm glad to be done. I'm not looking forward to packing, but whatever. I'm not looking forward to the long-ass flight with different connections, but whatever. I AM looking forward to being home, to seeing my friends and family, and to relaxing for a bit. I'm going to miss Spain SO much...I already begin to miss it now that some of the good-byes have been said. After two weeks I'm sure I'll want nothing more than to fly back here. But for now, for this part of my life, it's time to be done...it's time to go home, finish the things I started there, and then let life carry me where it will.
To all my friends, many hugs and kisses. Wish me a safe flight (and that my luggage arrives WITH me to Chicago).
All my love, my best wishes, my hopes and my dreams, my hugs and my kisses to all of you. :)
Of all the exams, I probably feel the least great about this one ... not because I think I did all that poorly, but just because I think she's a really hard grader. I was done in 2 hrs (I just had nothing more to write and what I could have written no longer fit the context, and I couldn't go back and add it in), so I just said to myself, "All right, let it be. You've answered the question to the best of your ability, and you feel like you should have done well enough to pass..." Maybe not with flying colors, 'cause like I said, I don't think she'll be nice to any of us. But I knew what I was talking about, and the only reason I wouldn't get a fabulous grade is if I didn't go in depth enough for her taste. At this point, I'm so burnt out I don't care.
But I feel really good for all that. Beni and I said our good-byes last night, and it was a perfect "ending" to our time together...not to our friendship, becuase we'll still write and such.
Sarah, Stefano and I gave Jose our gifts last night. He didn't cry (juuust managed not to), but we got exactly the excited and happy reaction we had wanted. We know that it's been a tough year for him, and we know he's depressed that we're leaving (the reason he got a gift and we're holding out on Stefano is because we are pretty sure we'll see Stefano this Christmas when he comes to the States to visit Anna H, and because Jose is the only one really being left behind.) Even so, as we all wrote in the front cover of the photo album we gave him, this isn't the end. We'll see each other again someday, of that I am sure. And no matter what, there's e-mail and MSN to keep in contact by. So it'll be alright.
I'm glad to be done. I'm not looking forward to packing, but whatever. I'm not looking forward to the long-ass flight with different connections, but whatever. I AM looking forward to being home, to seeing my friends and family, and to relaxing for a bit. I'm going to miss Spain SO much...I already begin to miss it now that some of the good-byes have been said. After two weeks I'm sure I'll want nothing more than to fly back here. But for now, for this part of my life, it's time to be done...it's time to go home, finish the things I started there, and then let life carry me where it will.
To all my friends, many hugs and kisses. Wish me a safe flight (and that my luggage arrives WITH me to Chicago).
All my love, my best wishes, my hopes and my dreams, my hugs and my kisses to all of you. :)