Saying Goodbyes

Over the past five months, Bangor has become my home and a few special individuals have become my family.

"Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives

 but it seemed to give meaning to all the others."

I don't take it lightly how fortunate I was to find these wonderful people within the first few days of moving here. We all clicked instantly and our friendship just worked from day one.

Considering the short amount of time we've been here, we've all gotten extremely close, and discussed how easily this could not have been the case.

What if we didn't get along and all just went our own separate ways?
What if we didn't choose to eat all our meals together? (This just seems ridiculous.)
The 'what ifs' could go on and on...

It doesn't feel real. How has five months gone by so fast?

Haz and KFC/JFK (aka Alex) were the first to leave on Monday. Mads and Emily will meet up with Haz in Turkey, but I don't know when I will see her again. Yesterday morning (Saturday), Mads and Emily left. Unfortunately, I didn't get back in time from a camping trip so I didn't properly say goodbye to them, which greatly upsets me. Then, yesterday afternoon, I said goodbye to Dan. I'm all alone in Reichel (our hall) until the 4th (short Harry and a few others are here, but it's just not the same).

It's weird being in a place filled with so many memories, without the people who helped make those memories. I can't let myself get too sad though, as there is so much to look forward to in the future. Plus, there is something so beautiful about the chemistry and dynamics we all had together.

I never want to forget (and I don't think I will) how they all made me feel, our adventures in Wales and beyond, our desire to go out to the clubs solely so we could get chips from Bella Bella on the way home, and our love of pasta.

I'll likely see Emsy in the States soon and someday I'll go to Australia (I have three very good reasons to), but it's going to be hard to not have them in my every day life. It's rare for me to consider this many people all my best friends, but they are. I truly love them all so much (#lel).