We have made it to the last weekend of this trip. This week has been very bittersweet. I am ready to go home, but I do not want to leave the people that I have met while I have been here. Seamus Heaney wrote a poem called Scaffolding. He talks about how scaffolding is put up to ensure that things are stable when we are building something. When you take them down, the poem says that there is a solid wall, there when you take the scaffolding down. That is what has happened with the people that we have met here.
We have put up these crutches to help us build relationships while we have been here and find friends. While having these up, they have helped not only me but the university as well. For me it has helped me to make lifelong friends whom I look forward to coming back to see, but with my family next time. For the university, it has helped us to rebuild the connections that we need to have so that the program can flourish. As we leave though, we have been taking them down and seeing the beauty of a friendship that we have built. When they come to say goodbye, it is not going to be easy, but one thing I know for sure is that this is not goodbye, this is just a see you later!
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