Farewell of the dorm

It's that time again when people start leaving the dorm and this time I'm one of them.

We had our farewell party at the dorm last week, as well as the last all you can drink party of the dorm. It's been emotional times. But I'm also filled with gratitude!

The farewell party started with a barbecue in the little garden at the back of the building. There was udon and curry and veggies and rice and I ate a lot. I really appreciate how many vegetarian things there were! The focus of the BBQ was the people though. Basically it turned into a picture taking event. I was a little sad that a few of my closest friends couldn't make it to the party, but I had tons of fun nonetheless!

 

After that we settled down in the common room to watch the farewell video. Now, me and Koni were crying before the video even started, but it only got worse with the video, haha! It was such a beautiful video! It had pictures of random times in the dorm and our dorm events, as well as silly and heartfelt messages from everyone. I laughed and cried and laughed again and again. It was beautiful!

After that video, there was another suprise video because a lot of the resident assistants (the Japanese students who live in the dorm, help us out and organise all these fun things) are leaving as well. So we watched another video from the RA's and that was great too.

Lastly we all received a DVD with the video on, with a card in it that everyone then could write messages in. It was an emotional but great day.

The all you can drink that followed a few days after was awesome as well. We drank for two hours and went to karaoke.

I'm so glad I got to live in such a happy place where everyone welcomes you with open arms regardless of who you are or where you come from. I feel like this living situation allowed me to make friends with people who I wouldn't easily get close to if it were my live in Belgium, and I'm so grateful for that. It's a situation that forces a person to become more open and accepting and I love that.

The many people I made friends with, and especially those who I've grown really close to, I concider as more than friends. They feel like a true family to me. Whether this is because of the fact that we live together in the same house or the fact that we're all away from our own family and we need to fill up that space, I don't know. Probably a mixture of both. But that doesn't make it any less real. I love these people to death and I will never forget that.

I'm going to miss the people in this dorm so much. But I shouldn't think about it negatively. I've gained so much in living here and meeting these kind, generous, loving people and the fact that we all live in different places only means that I have more reason to travel the world. That's a very happy thing. I am a very lucky person. All I need to do is make the money to travel hahaha!

I've decided though that that is what I want to do. I want to travel a lot. I want to work, I want to work hard, I want to learn to take care of myself and then I want to travel.

Secondly I've realized how much I love my home and my family. I realized how lucky I am in having such a good place to come home to. So I want to spend time with family as much as I can.

I don't know where this post has gone. What was the point of this post again? I don't even know.

Oh well. I'm gonna leave it at that! I'm taking one of my best friends to the airport in a few hours. It's gonna be another emotional day.

Much love ♥