Farewell

In a few hours, I'm gonna say good-bye to Galati, go to Bucharest, and somehow get to the airport. Then early tomorrow morning I'll say good-bye to Romania, and three hours later I'll say hello to Amsterdam. After 2 hours and 20 minutes in transition, I'll say good-bye to Amsterdam, then I'll be in air for 9 hours and 40 minutes, and finally say home sweet home in Atlanta.

It's so hard to believe that I'm leaving. When I first in Romania, I thought it was going to be a LOOOONG six months. Well, it was, so many things happened in the last six months. So many. And I'm not tired of it yet. It isn't like "I don't wanna go home", because I do. In the last few days I've been dreaming about the luxury I'll regain when I get back, like being able to choose clothes out of my closet rather than suitcase, musical instruments, boxing, being able to understand everything around me in terms of language, and so on. But I'm really going to miss the lifestyle that I'm leaving behind.

At my last and final LC meeting, I told everyone that Romania may not be the most exciting place to visit for tourists, especially Galati compared to other cities. If I were a tourist in Galati, I would have hated the place because I don't speak the language, people mock me on the street because I'm an Asian, and infrastracture like public transportation sucks to what I've seen in the past (though comparing to the system in Tokyo is not really fair). But because of the people I met through AIESEC, my stay in Galati, and therefore Romania, was well worth the time, money, and effort I spent to be here. It was the people that made the difference. I'm not really going to miss things like riding on maxi taxi driven by crazy drivers, but I'll surely miss EVERYONE I got to know here.

I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again. Oh babe, I hate to go...