After the Rain…
Could it be? Has the rain stopped? It started raining since Monday and for the past few days, I can hardly remember seeing the curtain of water disappear at all. It was difficult to move my packed stuff into storage. However, there was good in it as Rajiv couldn’t go for his work and we got to spend sometime together yesterday. Rose, Rajiv and I went out for coffee and then for a nice dinner (on Rose) as it was our last gathering together. Jewel has left the dorms last week, Rose left this afternoon, Sawma this week, and Rajiv next Sunday.
The girls will be living in Japan as they have secured jobs as teachers at international schools in Yokohama and Tokyo. Sawma is going back to India for a while and Rajiv too… for good or moving to UK from there. It is difficult to see each of them go. How ironic it is that though it is I who graduated, I was left behind to see off my fellow friends… understandable for the fellow graduates, but juniors like Ruth, Ashesh, Sunil, Matthew, etc.
I don’t know… but I guess that’s what I have been accustomed to over here in at TCU for the past 4 years. I have seen people come, made good friends with them, and they have to go. People like Lisa Hirata, Aimee, Kanade, Yumi-sensei, Osakabe, and of recent, Kevin… came and go. These are those very few whom I adore and they were kind enough to keep in contact.
I have no idea how am I going to keep up with this season of farewells. Maybe my tear ducts will go through intense use and do work after all. I dread the departure of Rajiv… I really do.
