I miss you, thank you for your friendship

One of the hardest things about the year abroad is saying goodbye. You meet so many wonderful people from all over the world, you click, you have a great time together and then reality hits you at their farewell party. As you take another sip of your drink, the music’s load, everyone’s dancing and you realise you are probably never going to see them again.
The world is simply too big.
On Tuesday 4 of my Japanese friends returned home. They were only here for 3.5 months, and god have they flown by. Saying goodbye was so difficult because it felt like I’d only just said hello. I still remember the first day I met all of them, the first conversations we had, the first time we laughed together, the first party we went to…. And now they’re gone. I’d love to visit them in the future, in fact my plan is to save up money and take a trip to Asia after I graduate in 2012, but things and priorities change. I’m going to have this same dilemma when I leave in February with the American, Taiwanese, South Korean, and the remaining Japanese friends. They were some of the first people I met here, and the most welcoming. I hate the thought of our friendship being cut so short.
I’m happy to hear that my friends arrived safely home. I’m happy that they enjoyed their farewell party on Sunday night, it sure was…eventful. I cried as we said farewell in the snow. I continued to cry in my room and on the bus the next morning. Going through something as stressful as a year abroad, you can’t help but get attached to people. I know life will move on and I hope that we will meet again, but for now Marburg seems very empty without them.