Fields of Sunshine

And so it ended. We all worked our final day on the carts or giving tours, went down to the staff cafeteria for the last time, and trooped out to the terrace so that we could all feast together and relax. Fried plantaines, curly fries, chicken, pasta, and wild rice. When we were working we felt like it would never end, and yet here it had. It reminded me a bit of the end of highschool. I was ready to move on, but still a bit nostalgic about it. They were all good people and despite the fact that I only knew them for a few weeks, I got closer to them than I have with people that I've known for years. Maybe it has something to do with being stuck in each other's company for five hours a day, every day.
There we all were, lying out on the grass in the sunshine, laughing and remembering the good times as golden summer blew over us, passing away. Every end is also a beginning, so while I may feel nostalgic for what I leave behind, I'm also excited for what waits for me ahead. Still, it's sad whenever there is a parting of the ways. The end is a beggining, but it is a different beggining for each of us.

Semmy will go on to do her clinicals at college. Her first major step in becoming the nurse practioner that she wants to be.

Yu has already borded the plane to San Fransisco where he will visit with his Grandmother before leaving for college. He is already half-way done and a already much closer to yet an another and an even bigger beggining that I am.

Joanna will go to college and come back to dig in her garden and harvest her vegetables while her sister, Alda, looks on and makes bitter, cynical comments...and I am sure that both of them will be very happy.

Max will return from his trip to Bermuda and keep doing exactly what he did before meeting us: being cynical and speaking Japanese.

Gen will work at Museum in the special exhibits untill January, and eventually he will leave and figure out what he wants to do with himself.

And I? I will return to Muhlenberg on my own adventure: to try my hand at medicine for the first time, to face down Organic Chemistry--where the men are sepparated from the boys, to try having a social life again, and to return to the company of a woman that I adore.

Every end is a beggining...but first, can I get a MEEP MEEP!
Here's to golden days in a field of sunshine.