再見!

Lunch with my aunty! 

Hanshin Mall with Xiaohan!

Goodbye to the class :'(

Goodbye lunch with the church

KTV night with the ladies/goodbye KTV Party

Breakfast with my nanny from 15 years ago

Last stroll in the Cultural Center

Lunch with Xinyi and Andrew

On the way to the location of their photoshoot!

Sugarcane Refinery location

Check out more of their pictures here!

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I've always loved "good bye" in Chinese (再見). If you literally translate it, it means "again meet".
Meet again.

For my last full day here in the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, I finally found myself attached to this place. It was my home for four months. The people, the school, the family, the stores and restaurants that I'm familiar with now.

It was my second home.

Well, the suitcase is all packed and my carry-ons are ready to spend the next 20+ hours with me as I travel to Taipei and then to home. God sent me on this adventure four months ago and He's closing in on this chapter of my life in a few hours.
Unfathomable.
My attachment to this place has come true because I have found myself finally comfortable with this place: the familiarity of the motorbikes' roars going up and down the streets below my window; the usual sound of my grandma's cane on the floor as she walks in front of my door in the mornings, waiting for me to wake up; the cars and motorbikes racing beside me, giving me that familiar polluted air smell as I ride my bike to church on Sunday mornings. I've finally found my comfort place and now He's taking me away. It's bittersweet because I know I'm in His hands and yet it's a mystery to where He's taking me now. But as one of my good friend/older brother back at Chicago once told me: "God never asked us to trust in Him about every single day; He asked us to trust in Him for the next five, ten minutes."

I think the question I'm asking myself right now isn't "when will I ever be back?", but "how soon?" I know in my heart I'll be back again. Don't know when but I'll be back.

"Again meet."

"再見", Taiwan.
Just you wait (: