Times for Change

Hello everyone.

                       

Well, this week has been interesting. It’s been a week of reminiscing on old memories and planning future ones; ones I will make in my coming gap-year. This week has also been about change.

I came upon my first dealing with change when I resigned from my waitressing job which I’ve had for a year - part-time/seasonal.  This decision was not because of what I did but where I did it; the place I’ve been working is on the other side of our Island and so the trip there and back combined takes 1 hour 20 minutes. This is 1 hour 20 minutes of sitting on a bus going over our Island’s very bumpy roads which isn’t a lot of fun. What makes matters worse is that it has just been confirmed that road works are taking place along the road I usually take and so it will be closed for weeks meaning I would have to travel even further to get to work. This was what helped me make my final decision to resign.

Now, if you know me you’ll know I’m a stresser and often pretty shy so the idea of having to, for the first time, write a letter of resignation and quit was terrifying to me. However, I managed to and I finished my last shift there on Sunday. This was also my second run-in with change as I usually struggle to do this kind of thing on my own however I am beginning to more.

I have since applied somewhere a bit closer to home and am waiting on their reply with a hopeful excitement.

The biggest change this week though has been the transition towards me and my class leaving school. All this week everyone has been finishing off work, taking down posters and reclaiming personal items from our common-room. It’s only this week that it’s all began to feel real and as I sit here typing on the evening before my last day of school part of me is really excited for the coming year but part of me is also really sad about leaving everyone and everything I’ve become so familiar with over these past 6 years. The idea of us all going our separate ways is really difficult to think about because I’m going to miss everyone so much!

Today was one of my friend’s last day as she has an interview tomorrow for college-exciting-and as I was signing her shirt it brought a tear to my eye. Tomorrow I’m sure there will be many more as we all say our goodbyes.

Of course tomorrow will also be fun with signing shirts, practically mandatory last-day pranks(got my moustache and water gun ready) and thanking and saying goodbye to teachers. And at the end of tomorrow I can leave school knowing I put a lot into it and got a lot out of it in both my school work, friendships and memories.

I shall have another cheeky bonus post this week I think to let you know about our last day and about my experiences in high school but for now I have some well-deserved “Thankyou” cards to finish.

Mollie

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