Yes, this blog entry does begin with a Spice Girls quote. Please put it down to my emotional, pre-departure state of mind. If you want to delve deeper into their lyrics, feel free to click the link below.
30th July 2012: Last day as a YAV.
30th July 2013: Leave Larne to return to Nashville.
What a year. A year of friendship: new and old.
Welcome home parties, leaving parties, live rugby, seeing Snow Patrol on home soil again, London-room nights, Duddy-Lough BBQ's, Costcutter fun, trips to Dublin, London (x2), Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Mull, Iona, Lake District and many Belfast nights out.
My love for my homeland, in particular the people here, has been strengthened this year.
To everyone who has been a part of my year, thank you.
A Friendship Blessing
From “Anam Cara” By John O’Donohue
May you be blessed with good friends.
May you learn to be a good friend to yourself.
May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where there is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.
May this change you.
May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you.
May you be brought in to the real passion, kinship, and affinity of belonging.
May you treasure your friends.
May you be good to them and may you be there for them;
May they bring you all the blessings, challenges, truth, and light that you need for your journey.
May you never be isolated.
May you always be in the gentle nest of belonging with your anam cara.
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