I lay here listening to the rain fall every so gently on the roof of the patio that’s right below my head. Every passing second, surreal. I look next to me with your arm placed perfectly across me, still fast asleep. I’m going to miss that for the next few weeks.

The day has finally come. I am off to China for my study abroad photography course. Beijing, Nanjing, Nanjing Art Institute, Suzhou, Shanghai. I can’t believe it. There will be so many opportunities coming from this trip and for the rest of the year for my photographic career. Everything must be done with my best foot forward because who knows where this can take me. I’m ready. I’m ready for it all.

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So I was technically supposed to graduate yesterday but because I changed my major 3x im not graduating till december. I’m perfectly fine with that. What bothers me is knowing that everyone will be gone. That I will go downstairs and my roommate of 4 years will no longer be there. That all my good friends in the art department are gone. That my boyfriend will be on his 6 month backpacking trip. Its weird to think that everyone I care about and have built memories with for the past four years of college will be gone beginning the next chapter of their lives.

While all this is going through my mind I keep reminding myself of all the wonderful things happening over the next 6 months.

I leave for China in exactly one week until May 28th. I will be in Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Shanghai.

I get back and will be going to Kansas City to help my bf move back and see what it’s like where he grew up.
We’re going to his lake house in the Ozarks.

Then I go back to Brooklyn for the summer and return to myrtle beach for my last semester of college.

I will be going to Daytona, chicago and Mississippi for my internship and who knows where and what else.

In the midst of all these changes there’s a lot to come. Everything is bittersweet.