Friday, August 7, 2009

Coming to an end...


Hello Everyone! This is the last blog that I will write for the summer. It is hard to believe that in one week we will be making our journeys back home. We say goodbye to our last group on Sunday, and then have a few days by ourselves to say goodbye to all of the friends that we have made. Over the past two weeks I have been hearing the question of how am I feeling now that the time is coming to say goodbye. The only way to truly answer that question is by saying that I have mixed emotions. I am excited about seeing my family and friends, but I do not want to leave this community. I have been blessed to make friends here in Harmons that I know would be willing to do anything for me. Friends who I am extremely close with. Saying goodbye to them is difficult because I do not know when I will be back again. Unlike when I said to goodbye to everyone in the States, there was a set date for me to return. Here I have to tell everyone that I am leaving and that I am not sure of when I will be able to make it back. I know for sure I will come back, because Harmons is Home and such a big part of my life, but it is hard to leave not knowing when that time will be.


Lastly I would like to thank everyone who has supported Won by One to Jamaica and our staff over the summer. Everything that we have been able to do this summer would not have been done without you. I am thankful to each of the groups who have come down and am so thankful to have had the opportunity to meet you all. Finally I am thankful to have had this wonderful opportunity to be in Harmons for the summer, and to become part of this community. To all of my friends here in Harmons I am not saying ‘Goodbye’, but rather ‘Later’.


Love,
Michael