Departure

Today my friend Yujiro is leaving the US, going back to Japan. Life as a foreigner in a foreign land, surrounded by foreigners, is always a game of arriving and leaving. Of welcomes, but most often of farewells.

I don't know to how many friends I have had to say bye-bye throught my life as a foreigner in Asia and North America. Some of them I've never seen again; some perhaps, I'll never see in the rest of my life. Would I ever see my friend Yujiro again? Only time knows.

One thing that is sure is that I'll be contacting his friend Holly. . . and I'm just going to write it in capital letters: HOLLY!

Sayonara my good friend Yujiro and the best luck for you!