I am full into the pre-move adventure. I have said goodbye for now to many people. Some of them it is goodbye until my next visit to town, or one visit in the future, or even a visit they will make to Dallas. They are not likely to be goodbye forever, but they are still unknown. There is the promise of keeping in touch, of course. Still, it is sad to leave so many wonderful people who have supported me on this journey. With each lunch, dinner, hug, wish of luck, I become more emotional about the departure. Today my parents visited to help me with some projects, and as we drove through town I began to look at landmarks that have shaped my time here- schools that I helped, the clinic where I learned child therapy, restaurants where I spent time with friends, and so on. As we stopped in our favorite store to look one more time at Aggie merchandise, one new shirt caught my eye and became my last symbol of my love for my school and my home for the last four years (and nearly 8 years of my life). As it says on the bottom, there's no place like home.
(picture gone from website.. oh well!)
Tomorrow I will spend one last Sunday with my church community who has been my home away from school, and I hope I am able to share my appreciation with as many of them as possible for all they have done for me. Over the next week, I will finish packing, complete coursework, finish my job, and make dissertation progress. And, of course, there will be the last of the goodbye-for-nows. I am excited about what is to come, and have started making plans for my time post-move, but for now I am swept up in the emotion of the end of this journey. I just hope that, in this last week, I am able to treasure every moment with so many wonderful people.
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