Sunday 28 April 2013

I'm Leaving On a Jet Plane

I don't know when I'll be back again.
Oh baby
I hate to go.

Sigh.  I was singing this song today as I packed up my bags and I just can't believe I'm leaving.  It's so crazy how maybe a month or two ago I was thinking "wow I can't wait to go home!  It's going to be amazing to go back home!" But in the past few days I've felt the total opposite.  I'm so sad to leave China.  I have made so many friends here, both at my work place and outside it, both Chinese and foreign, and both young and old. The people here are really very special because we have a community here that everyone is so important to. One day, I will come back to China (probably after I graduate, to be perfectly honest, since there are so few jobs in Canada hehe) and live here for at least another year.  This place will always be very special to me.


This is a lovely picture from about a month ago in the Wetlands.  It will be one of my favourite memories from this place.