"We must tie all these desperate impressions together."

I was surprised to see that I've been lacking in posts for December and that up until yesterday I didn't have much to say. Yesterday, it rained, actually it poured. It felt like it all fit my mood, it was gloomy and cold. It was odd to feel upset on my last real day of school for the semester and PHYSICS! After walking from Einstein's all the way to Physics without a jacket in the rain carrying Noelle's clanking chimes, we sat in the hall and "Goodbye my Lover" came on her iPod. I was going to be saying goodbye to these kids, my Music in Motion kids after the concert on Tuesday (tonight). The 10 of us were thrown together, promised an easy way to fulfill all of our basic requirements using a fun music physics class too. Somehow we instantly bonded, clicked, and began to treat each other like family considering I spent more time with those kids than my own brothers.

That first class, all of us girls went to Jamba Juice figuring that getting to know these people who we'd be practically glued to all semester would be important. The group of girls dwindled down to me and three other girls I barely knew. Noelle, the girl I literally had every class with, who I went to Einstein's with, who fostered my Farmville addiction leading to the withdrawal of our history class together, and I made stupid mistakes with. Cait, the kind hearted one, who always kept us on track and looking at the bright side, gives amazing hugs, and understood why I hated living at home because she did too. Kiara, the loud one who was the most like me, we bickered in class, laughed together about ridiculous things, kept each other on Facebook when papers needed to be written, planned our schedules to match exactly and let me cry and vent to her when I needed it.

My revelation during Physics and Math yesterday was how these girls have become my best friends. We've been inseparable and now tonight we'll have to say goodbye for over a month. We'll no longer have class together, we'll no longer fight for a table in front of Java City, make fun of the pain of our cluster, or laugh at Dan the Camera Man. We took a picture together yesterday and realized that tomorrow we'd be saying goodbye because Kiara would be leaving for Italy and Noelle would be going back home to Washington. We all tried to push it to the back of our minds because we never thought this day would come so soon, that the hardest semester of our lives would be over. These girls have been my strength and sanity this semester through my hardest moments like when my car died, again, or when I was trying so hard not to bump into someone I couldn't imagine seeing again. I will look back on these past few months with fondness because of all the memories we've made and the best friends I've gained.