How to deal with goodbyes

I know I said I would be back after exams, but I am on a revision break. Writing a blog post can also count as English revision as well as text type revision for Spanish. There is my declaration over!

Well, I decided to write this blog post because tomorrow is my last official day at school as my exams start on Bank Holiday Monday (UK holiday only, thanks IBO!). So while the whole country is having a day off, the IB students of the UK have to come in a sit an exam. Yes, I am bitter. However, getting back to the end of my school career.

This week, I have finally come to terms that the time spent with my amazing IB cohort is coming to an end, which is one of the most saddest things that I think I have had to come to terms with. Today, for example, I said goodbye to one of them who I won't see before exams finally start - it turned into an emotional mess. However, it has hit me that the reason why I am so emotional and sad about these two wonderful years coming to an end is because they were wonderful. Even if other parts of life were not going that smoothly, I still had an amazing support group at school which I am incredibly thankful for. If they were not wonderful, I would be happy to walk out the door and this goodbye would be so much easier.

Therefore, I am saying that hard goodbyes have their downsides, but they are not necessarily permanent due to the fabulous invention of the internet and trains. They also mean they are so very very special people, and you were lucky to have them in you life in the first place.

I thought I end this emotional blog post with something my friend tweeted me that sums up what I want to say but far more eloquently, there are always positive sides.

I will talk soon after exams.

Much love,

Harriet