Post #4: See You in 6 Months

(Friday, February 3, 2012)

     
     My sister is left for Spain on Thursday. She’s leaving as an exchange student for Madrid with two other friends. At first when she told me I thought it was an amazing idea, I thought that it was going to be an once-in-a-lifetime, incredible experience for her and her friends. As the days went by we continued on with our daily lives. But in winter break we began to go out together and get closer, I’m not shore if it was because of the fact that she was leaving or just because I’m older and I get along with her friends. But once this last week came, I began to think of all the things we actually do together. Small things like text each other when we are in the same house or call each other on the phone when we wanted to see a movie together and decided in which room of the house was the meeting going to take place. I wasn’t going to be able to do this anymore. For six months my sister was not going to answer my texts or call me on the phone or yell at me for taking her phone or just be in my room taking up space. For six months I am not going to see my sister. Being a single child must be so boring because a day has passed and I feel empty and bored. It’s like her presence was totally needed to make my household a home. And to add to all this, my mom left with her for 10 days. At the airport after the tears shed and the hugs given all I could say to her was “See you in six months. Oh and you better get a Spanish boyfriend!”