Go Nomads!! :)

Softball is so fun to watch... Even when the team has a bad game :) It was the third game I had seen (the first time I went they had a double header) and it is so much fun to see Caleb and his family and friends play :) I got to have some fun conversations about random stuff with Cayce too, which is always a blast! :)

And, needless to say, the goodbyes are already coming and are so much harder than I ever imagined! And the sad part is... They aren't even the final goodbyes. I almost cried when my grandpa brought over the printer he bought for me this afternoon and then again when Caleb and I were talking about it after the game. I don't know why I am getting emotional already. One, it's not like I am going very far away. And two, I will see them again before I leave! This doesn't make sense! Haha.

A few years ago I wrote this poem in Creative Writing and I think it fits pretty well for what is going on :) Let me know what you think!

Goodbye to the lamppost outside my door
Goodbye to the widow who lives next door
Goodbye to my lovers who kept me alive
Goodbye to my family, I'll see you sometime

Goodbye to the laughter, how I'll miss you so
Goodbye to the choir who sings so low
Goodbye to the pencil I hold in my hand
Goodbye to the people across the land

Goodbye to the marching band who blows so loud
Goodbye to the people standing in the crowd
Goodbye to the ring upon my left hand
Goodbye to the man who wears its band

Goodbye to the birds who sit in the tree
Goodbye to the cars lined on the street
Goodbye to the mountain stretching to the sky
Goodbye to the ladder reaching up so high

Goodbye to the knowledge that I have of this land
Goodbye, Goodbye

 

<3
Ali :)