If I never write this blog... If I never tell you about my Friday... Can that mean it never happened? If it never happened would that mean that we would be forced to relive it? I wish that I could say yes. I wish that if I never clicked publish post at the bottom of this I would still be in California, with all the awesome people I met there.
Ok, so it's not possible, and I'm really glad to be home with my family and all my friends, but the transition isn't an easy one.
Friday, after finally falling asleep at 5 ish, I woke up at 8:30 to a text from Kofi asking for his hangers. I instantly jumped out of bed, but not to get him his hangers. I jumped out of bed in a hurry because I remembered Jessica said to meet her at 8:45. In fact, a few minutes after waking up she texted me to tell me where she was and to spread the word.
Panic! I wasn't packed yet! Luckily, she didn't need us to be packed yet. Kofi, Kasra, and I headed up to the third floor lounge to meet Jessica. She had bagles for us, which was nice, and told us when our exit interviews were. My interview was at 11:30 (Ok, that's cool. I don't leave till 1.), and Lynn left at 11:30. =/
Her interview was one of the first so I sat in the lounge and waited for her to get done. When she got done she came down with me so I could finish packing. I got everything packed and then headed back upstairs with her to find Kasra and Emilly. We found them, and then they went to find Enrique. I stayed upstairs, talking with Tasha, and once she went into her interview I ran down to find Lynn and them since it was now nearing 11.
I found them in Enrique's room, after Michelle and I found Virginia. We watched a magic trick or two before all going upstairs to give Jessica the cards we wrote for her, Carolyn, and Kat. After we gave them to her, and had a big hug, we left to go get Lynn's luggage. The time was now 11:25ish... I had 5 minutes till my interview, and 5 minutes till Lynn left.
Everyone grabbed something of Lynn's to carry it out to the bus stop. I tried to stop and say goodbye to Lynn before we got too far, so I wouldn't miss my interview, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. We got outside the dorm, before I was able to stop her. She was already crying which destroyed me inside when i told her i had to go to my interview and was going to miss her leaving. We said our final goodbyes right there, and I didn't even make it back inside before the downpour of tears came.
I had managed to make it up to the lounge on the third floor without anyone noticing I was crying. Before going in, I tried to calm myself down so that if I had to go straight to my interview I wouldn't walk in with eyes red from crying. I walked in and Jessica said i still had some time. I sat on the arm of the couch, and Jessica assured me that everything was going to be fine, and then her and Tasha gave me a hug. It really helped me a lot.
I went into my interview determined not to cry, and somehow I managed to go through it all without breaking down. As soon as I got out of the room, however I could feel the tears coming back. It wasn't any help when I walked in and Jessica said "Ok, don't freak out Will, but Kofi and Enrique just left." My heart dropped. I had missed seeing Lynn off, and saying goodbye to Enrique and Kofi entirely.
Emily had texted me during my interview and told me to come down when I got done. I texted her before I got to Jessica. She responded right after Jessica told me that saying, "The bus stop run". I was out of that lounge before I could really tell Jessica what was going on. I rushed into the elevator, and would've straight up yelled at the elevator for being so slow if it wasn't for some lady I didn't know in the elevator with me.
After getting out of the elevator, I held the door open for her, and then ran as though my life depended on it to the bus stop. I saw the crowd in the distance, and ran even faster. Kofi stepped apart from the crowd and I ran into his arms to give him his goodbye hug (See: List of top 10 roommates in the world). I then went and gave Enrique his hug, consoled only by the fact that it wasn't even much of a see you later since he's also going to UT.
For the rest of the time, until I left it was nothing but an emotional roller coaster. I had to say goodbye too many times, and while saying goodbye to one of the groups they told us our van was there. It was not fun. I slowly made my way back to my room, savoring the time I had left to just walk the campus. I got my stuff and made my way to the van. After turning in my room key I said my final goodbyes to SJSU, and the remaining people. Lori almost wouldn't let me leave, and it killed me to see Izzy crying, but I had to get on the van to come home.
The van ride was rather silent, and once at the airport we got split up. Brittany, Nayeon, and Michelle were at a different terminal, so we said goodbye to them before making our way inside. We tried to talk the guy at the front into getting us next to each other, but he said we would have to talk to the people at our gate.
On our way in we saw Sam, and followed him back to his gate. We set our stuff down and went out in search of food. We decided on some pizza, and almost got Sam some corn soup, except it had turkey in it. We had to leave Sam when they announced that we had a gate change, but they did get Emily and I next to each other, as well as Samantha and Sarah.
I slept some on the plane, and talked to Emily when I wasn't. We landed alright, and I followed Emily to her gate, so she could watch my stuff whilst I went to the bathroom. When I returned I tried to call Kasra, but he didn't answer, so I started heading toward my terminal. Emily and I met up with Sarah, and Samantha. We all said our goodbyes to Emily, and then walked in the direction of the skylink. Sarah was the next to leave towards baggage claim and her family, and then Samantha and I split at the escalator.
Almost halfway through my skylink thing I couldn't remember where I put my boarding pass. I called Samantha, and had her check for it, and she informed me that I just needed to talk to the people at the gate. I luckily found my boarding pass in a random pocket in my laptop case that I've never used before. Haha.
I got home alright, and was really glad to see my sister, and parents. I felt really bad for Lynn, since she got stuck at the airport, but she was getting some rest at least, which was nice. My parents got me a cheeseburger, and some fries, before we headed home. I did a bit of talking about it, before everyone went to bed.
When I got to my room I found out that Kyle and Kasra were trying to rejuvinate wave, and so I jumped in. We waved for a while before I finally finished my blog and went to bed.
I still have to talk about Saturday, but hopefully Sunday and Saturday can go together... We'll see. =D
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