Come Away with Me

A house is made of wood and beams; a home is built from love and dreams

I was writing some cards at the desk last night when the screen saver mode of my laptop came on and the pictures slideshow started. As images after images streamed across the screen, some of earlier days when I just arrived, others of places I've been to, people whom I've met and activities participated in, it felt as if my entire one year in Japan had just flashed right across my eyes that instant. And as the iTunes continued to sing the familiar Kobukuro song that is always playing in Tamami sensei's car as we go swimming, tears just welled up unknowingly and before I realised it I was sitting on my tatami floor bawling my eyes out.

I know I am a strong girl and I can handle life's many things. I am more thankful than anything to have the opportunity to experience all that I had so far, for all the unbelievably kind people that I have the good fortune to meet and become friends with and I feel extremely blessed at the knowledge that all this while I have my family and boyfriend's unflinching love and support.

Just that anyone who had experienced being abroad for sometime will be able to understand. Like a friend pointed out exactly, parting is never easy, especially when you're saying goodbye to a life you've built for yourself by yourself in a foreign land.



This is my favorite corner in the entire apartment. As of now, it is still sitting like this at home. I have yet to have the heart to take it down, not quite yet. For when the day comes, it is REALLY time to go.

posted by テレサ @ 9:14 AM