goodbye halifax

5 months in review

Today is January 21st, so what? For most people it is just an ordinary sunday. For me it has a different meaning. It is time to look back and reflect on life, but also time to look ahead on what will be.
Its been exactly 5 months since I first set foot in my new room, since I first said hello to my new life.That moment was full of excitement, joy, but also full of uncertainties.

Now today, 5 months later, all those uncertainties for Halifax are gone. I can look back and say yes the excitement and joy didn’t cheat on me. I had a really good time here, met lots of interesting friends with interesting personalities from different nationalities, religions or just different backgrounds. Every person being different in their own special way and yet they all live in this one place together as friends.

I m looking at pictures, yes the millions I took here and remember all those moments I experienced here. I see the smiles on people´s faces, the insecurity, the love, the fears, the drunkenness ;P, the caring, the frustration, the excitement and the hard work that was put into events, classes, projects and into life as life itsself.

I think about the international orientation, when we went to peggy´s cove and I looked out on the ocean. I was wondering, what was going to happen in the next half a year?

Reading thousands of pages, writing hundreds of pages, travelling thousands of miles, talking for millions of hours, chatting for lightyears, calling people for hours, working forever, playing baseball for days, watching tons of movies? Being caught up in the moment was never in it and there isnt a moment I want to miss. Life is short and sweet, you have to experience all of it.

Life has been a highway, I cant believe it has been 5 months and I can not believe I m leaving so soon. I could probably write 100 pages about my life here, but noone would find time to read it.

So this is the time for me to say thank you to all of you. Thank you for all the memories we ve shared, for all the times we ve seen, if we laughed, discussed, ate, went on a trip, watched a movie, listened to music, sat in classes together, went to events or meetings, if we went to a hockey game to the musical, to a club, took a walk, played football or baseball together, went to the gym, shared experiences, went crazy or were being serious.
Thank you for everything.

I thank you for giving me advice or support and also for critizising me and letting me know I was wrong. Nobody is ever perfect. Life is a learning process until the moment you die.

I never want to say goodbye, so I will say…see you soon instead

As I ve told some people before… am I ready to leave?

No I m never ready to leave, but it is time to move on, so I have to.

Exactly a week from now I will leave Halifax and probably more than half of you I will never ever see again, I still cherish the moments with you and I appreciate all you ve done. You have all been part of my life and I thank God for it.
Halifax – Winter of 2006/07 – I will never forget

If anyone ever comes to Germany, call me up =)

See you soon ;)