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aro-ace-protagonists replied to your post: FINISHED MY LAST FINAL BUT NOW I HAVE THREE HOURS...
lucky… i am both not finished and not high on 5 hour energy
i had to wake up dad to find the five hour enrgy cause i thought it was in the kitchen but he keeps it in his offiec closet and there is so much energy in my body and i submitted my paper but tbh i probably shouldn’t because i high key am having aissues typing nr because of all the caffine in my systme
aro-ace-protagonists replied to your post: i should be working on my essay due tomorrow but i...
same though?
my brain is like “melissa you got two sentences on page two lets go look at sad pictures of lily and james potter”
Adieu, Adieu, to You and You and You
In less than three days, I will be in a plane flying over the Atlantic Ocean, en route to The Netherlands. The past few days have been incredibly hectic and full, but have completely flown by. I’ve been scrambling to see as many friends as I can and say as many face to face goodbyes, while at the same time working on packing and get my life in order.
One of those goodbyes took place over the span of a weekend. On Saturday the 16th I took a bus to Boston, where my best friend and wife, Emily, met me at the bus/train station. I spent 2 days with her at Brandeis, and over that time I met the majority of her school friends (except for Ryan because he’s a poop and was getting a new dog) and had the opportunity to see most of my friends that also grace the halls of Brandeis University. Two of my favorite experiences of the weekend was surprising one of my best friends and babies from my time in NFTY, Rachel. Emily and I maaaaay have lied to her and told her I wasn’t coming, only so that I could surprise her and blanket her in my love. I also received a surprise over the weekend; when Emily was in a capella practice, my friend Lee (also from NFTY) ‘babysat’ me. My surprise was one of my best friends from NFTY, Allie, who I hadn’t spoken to in ages. Allie is the type of friend where you can go forever without talking and pick up where you were in an instant. I wasn’t sure if I would be seeing her while at Brandeis, so being surprised by her and spending a few hours with both of them was wonderful.
I’m actually really lucky that I have so many friends like Allie, in the sense where I can pick up where I left off after months of not talking. Emily is one of those friends. She and I are used to spending great amounts of time apart, as she spent an entire school year in Israel my freshman year of college, and she goes to school several hours away from me. Another one of my friends, also from NFTY (there’s a theme here, isn’t there? Apart from the fact Emily’s not from NFTY...), Morgan, is the same way. We go for months without talking and then the conversations flow just as naturally and there’s lots of weird selfies and laughter and hugs. The day after I got home from Brandeis I saw Morgan. Now, I wanted her to meet the boyfriend (I have one of those, his name is Henry, more on him later) and some of my school friends, and so she and I went out to school. We got lunch and dinner with my friends Allie and Laura, with Henry, and hung out around school.
Tuesday was the day that it really hit me that I was going abroad and leaving everything: my family, my friends, my boyfriend... for almost five months. I broke down crying for the first of five times thus far, and once I had recovered from my crying, Morgan and I went back to Jersey, and I bid farewell to her.
Wednesday I went back out to PA to see my school friends one last time. I had lunch with my friends Tali, Mandy, and Esther, which was super nice, especially since Tali was abroad last semester so this was my only time seeing her. And then I hung out with Allie and Henry and Zoey, among other people the rest of the night. I slept over in PA, and had brunch with Henry this morning. Within these 36 hours I cried another four times by the way. After brunch I said goodbye to my boyfriend... potentially for the last time until May, and went home.
I’ve said a lot of goodbyes the past few days. But I can’t dwell on them right now. Yes, it sucks that I won’t have the people who are most important to me with me this semester, but I have so much to look forward to. I’m starting a new chapter of my life in an amazing city. I’m going on an adventure and will make wonderful memories. And it’s not truly goodbye. I have facebook and skype and instagram and of course, I have this tumblr blog to keep everyone up to date with my travels. I’m still able to communicate with everyone in my life, despite a seven hour time difference. And I’m only gone for 128 days. Then I’ll be back in NJ and in PA with the people that matter most in my life; and hopefully, I’ll have more people that matter in my life after this study abroad experience.
