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| NO8DO, Seville's motto |
NO8DO, "No me ha dejado," she (Sevilla) has not abandoned me. The city's motto, and a fitting way to describe the end of my semester in Sevilla. The time here has absolutely flown by and I now have memories that will last for a lifetime. I do not know when or if I will ever return, but Sevilla will always have a special place in my heart and I will forever remember the things that I have learned.
A few weeks ago, I thought that I was ready to come home, since I was especially missing my family around Thanksgiving and both of my parents' birthdays, but now that I have less than 12 hours left in Sevilla, I would love to just have one more day to walk past the world's third largest cathedral yet again, to enjoy tapas with friends, to hear my Señora Lola call me "Jo-el" for the one-hundredth time. Honestly, despite a few rough spots, I have no regrets from my time here in Sevilla. It has definitely felt like my home away from home here, and I truly hope that some day I will be able to return.
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| My beautiful Señora, Lola. |
Tonight, our Señora brought us our last dinner - fajitas. I'm not sure if she did this on purpose or not, but that was the first meal that she ever made for us when we first arrived to Sevilla. We really have come full circle. I think that each and every one of us is a different person now than when we first arrived, even if only the slightest way.
As I was walking to school for the last time today, I was thinking of all the things I was
not going to miss about Sevilla and Spain, because the list is so much shorter than the list of things that I will most
definitely miss. I thought it would help me prepare for going home, but to be honest, I will probably miss even the small things that bother me about Sevilla, too.
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| Sunset view of my beautiful Sevilla from Las Setas (the Mushrooms) |
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| Saying hasta luego to Plaza de España, one of my favorite places in Sevilla (although let's be honest, I probably say that about everything and everywhere in Sevilla). |
So, I have decided that I am not saying "goodbye" to Sevilla, the friends I have made here, and Lola, but rather,
¡hasta luego, Sevilla!
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