Hope, friendship, and happiness

This will remain untitled I think. Not really sure what this will be about but I'm hoping it will be the restart of my little blog.

I am staring an event in the face. Not the big three-oh event. I'm ok with that actually. I am looking at the reversal of the biggest change in my life. I have lived in San Francisco, far away from my family and friends, for three years. This January I decided to change that. My resignation was handed in and accepted and d-day is June 15th for work and June 18th for the flight with the 19th as the day I step back onto the soil of England to live, not just visit.

Happy Days, right?! Yes and no. This decision was not one I took lightly. I prayed, questioned, sought advice, and realised that I had already made up my mind before I started asking others about this. So I started down the path of letting the world know.

The hardest part was telling some of the kids I have worked with over that past three years. I told the 7th and 8th graders face to face and it was an emotional morning which included some of the teachers crying along with me. I was then subjected to the most overwhelming amount of emails, facebook messages, and texts of appreciation and love from a wonderful group of people who tell me I have affected their lives to a point where they think they wouldn't be the people they are today without me being such a huge role model.

Emotions. Again. A LOT of emotions. The one that hit me most was uprising of love for these people. After that all I have felt is humility. It's amazing to think that, even when you don't realise it (I mean, I was just doing my job for crying out loud), you affect the people around you. Whether you want to or not.

I have experienced so much in this wonderful city. I have the privilege of having many amazing friends here too. I hope they can remain with me all my life in some way. This is a rare occurrence for all of us and I am blessed to be able to say that I have some of those friends back in England. Friends with whom I cannot wait to be reunited with.

Tough isn't the word. I feel like I am being pulled in all directions of emotion. I am happy and sad to be leaving and returning. I will miss you and I will be amazingly happy to be reunited with you.

Life is wonderful. Hard. Easy. Fun. It is what you make of it. I have made my decision, I'm sticking to it. I will never regret anything I have done or will end up doing. I must look forward and see hope, friendship, and happiness.

In fact, I have just created the title for this entry.

It's good to be back blogger-sphere.