7.18.2011

the stories we love best live in us forever.

And that goes for cities as well.  As I sit here, crying a little bit about the thought of leaving Bath for what will be a very long time (and probably annoying all the other people in our room), I can't even begin to put into words what these past six months have done for me.  Five months and nineteen days ago, I was sitting in my room, feeling a little sick and packing up all my belongings and wondering how on earth I would survive six months abroad.  Not because I was afraid, but more because it just seemed like such a long time, and that was daunting.


Now, of course, I wish I could stay six more months.  Don't get me wrong--I'm VERY excited to get home and see everyone, but there's so much here that I will miss so much it will hurt.  The pound, tea time, Linley House, British accents, cider and black, pubs, the countryside... I could go on forever but I feel like I should stop typing so as not to be murdered by our hostelmates (we will, after all, be leaving at 2:30 am... yikes).  So, five months ago, I said this:

I still am in a state called Denial.  I can't believe I'm actually going.  Once I'm there it might hit me.  Although even then it's still likely that I think I'm dreaming.


And really, it all does feel like a dream.  The best dream I've ever had, I'd say.  Part of me still doesn't believe that it happened, that I am this lucky.  But it did, and I am.  So thank you a trillion times to everyone who made my experience what it was. 


Bath, I love you. Cheers.
-LPRO

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