Saying goodbye is always hard and, even after less than 2 weeks, we’ve gotten very attached to our local teachers. What we didn’t realize was just how attached they got to us! Perhaps it’s because we’re the first students they’ve ever taught, but perhaps teachers always feel this way when it’s time for their students to move on. If so, it must be very difficult because all of our xiaolaoshi were either crying or on the verge of tears during our farewell dinner. We sang, danced, joked around, and generally had a grand time, but mostly we took pictures of and with each other for memory’s sake.
What just kills me is that, through some kind of goof, I lost all 22 pictures I took with my local teachers and friends during the farewell dinner. I’ll have to steal them from facebook whenever they come up, but I doubt they’ll ever make it to this blog. The optimistic way to look at things is like this: even though I lost the pictures I took personally or had people take with my camera, there are still the pictures everyone else has taken, which will end up on facebook soon. Even if I never post them on this blog, I think it doesn’t matter much. None of my readers know my teachers, and the pictures are purely for sentimental value. As long as I can look at the ones everyone else took, I’ll be happy. Luckily, I have recently created a renren account, which is the facebook “substitute” in China, just as “youku” is the Chinese version of youtube. Anyone who wants to find me on http://renren.com can search for 麦蕊蕊. I’m the only one at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
Ack, it just bothers me so much that the pictures disappeared!
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