Said goodbye to another school today and got a lovely yukata as a sayonara gift. I got genuinely choked at the end of ESS today because I'll really miss the girls. I'm finding it more and more tiresome and draining to say goodbye to people.

Yes, it is sad that I'm leaving.
I'm taking the Trans-Mongolian home.
Yes, I know it's strange to get to St. Petersburg and then fly to America.
Watch TV and sit in my pyjamas.

Sorry, switched onto autopilot there for a minute.

Laura accused me of being sentimental today and maybe I am. But, I think the reason I boo so much is not so much because my schools are irreplaceble, it's more that saying goodbye to them is tangible evidence that my time here is running out like quicksand.