( Steph Lloyd )

I had two emotions today. Only two. Hehe. Sad. Stressed. My leaving the kids was a bit anti-climactic because I’ve only been teaching these classes for a week. No one is really sad to see me go! We had little snack parties in the Meysen classes. They were so sweet. A bunch of them came up and hugged me at the end of class, a few didn’t want to let me go. It sucked that I couldn’t really explain to them, in words, how much I loved them. I’m pretty sure they knew though. Then tonight I Matt and I stopped in at taekwondo. I was planning on practicing but by the end of the day I was way too pooped. I just picked up all my stuff and stopped in to say goodbye. After a bit, Master Na brought out a cake and a bunch of snacks for the kids. They all got in a circle and then I walked around (real quick!) and shook their hands and said goodbye. It felt a little bit awkward, because I wasn’t sure that that is what I was supposed to be doing, but I think it was alright. I almost cried there, because I’m going to miss everyone there so much. I got email addresses from everyone but I have a feeling that if we can barely speak in person, keeping in contact long distance will be even harder. I’m still going to try!

Tomorrow we have to meet our boss for lunch, clean up the house, get the luggage all stuffed and zipped and hopefully relax a bit. Our boss hired a van to take us to the airport on Sunday morning at 8 a.m. He’s, along with is kids, are going to come say goodbye. My master is also coming to say goodbye. I bought him a gift, I didn’t get one for my boss. I guess I should probably go get one tomorrow so that I don’t find myself in an awkward situation. Hehe.

Sunday we’ll be embarking on our journey home. I can’t even believe we’re here, on our way home. I’m so sad!! I’m borderline depressed. I’m wondering when I’ll get happy… probably as soon as we take off. Haha!