Flights and Thoughts on Leaving

Today I booked flights to Tomsk and said goodbye to several teachers at one of my schools. That's pretty much the schedule for the rest of the week as well. Rack up the goodbyes then fly away.

Thinking about leaving does tend to make me sad but I think it does also show that so far this year has been a success of some kind. I have been able to cope so well in Germany that a large part of me doesn't want to go.

Leaving is also even harder when I'm so unsure as to when exactly I'll be back. I'd like to come back over the summer for a bit but nothing's certain. I'm going to try and focus on the positives though and not think about leaving as a cold, hard, severing of all new ties here. Facebook is, as ever, proving an incredibly useful tool for keeping in touch with people.

Other positives include the fact that yesterday I bought tattoo pens (just because) and I now have a tiny black lizard on my right hand, and also the head teacher at one school gave me a dvd about Leipzig 'to remember them by'.

I'm going to miss this crazy and wonderful country.