Görüşürüz

Görüşürüz means "see you later"

Once I go to sleep tonight (which I should be doing quite soon seeing as its already past 1AM) and wake up  tomorrow it will be my last full day in Istanbul. Wow writing that sentence was difficult. I'm going to pull a huge cliche here but my semester abroad proves that time flies when your having fun *wink* *wink*. I cannot believe my time here is hours from being over... It feels as if the relationships I've formed here have been in the works for years and I'm sure the bonds I have with these people will last a lifetime. Slowly but surely all of my friends have started to head back home to where ever they hail from. Some are already back in the States with their family. Others are off traveling deeper into the globe. While a select few (including me) are still left on campus counting down until each of our individual flights depart. It's tough being one of the last people to leave because then the goodbye process is a long and depressing one. Rather than pulling off the band-aid and saying goodbye to everyone at once I have had to slowly watch each person walk out the door to possibly never see them again. 

Usually I can't stand for "goodbye" to be the last thing we say to one another so somehow "see you later" always slips out in the last minute. Hopefully I will get to see many of these amazing people again. We all plan to visit one another individually and also have a big reunion somewhere down the line. I'm determined to make it happen. 

But my flight doesn't leave until Wednesday, so I can't say officially say Görüşürüz to Istanbul and everyone else quite yet. I've got to save up the sappy for the true departure moment....