Beginning Farewells

Tonight is a farewell party for one of the first people I came to know in Japan.  She's leaving a little early from the season in order to start a job as ground crew with an airline, and incredible dream that she has had for a long time.  It's exciting to see her off to something that she has wanted so badly for so long, but a little strange to start the goodbyes.  People have been leaving the entire time that I've been here, but somehow the reality of it is beginning to sink in, the coming year is starting to take shape for all of us, in many different ways.  And after this project, in the middle of next week, off she'll go, back to Taiwan.  Goodbye, goodbye.