This will be my final blog post.  After two, excellent years in Japan, it is time for me to head home.  Four years ago, I taught English at Hello!s but had to leave quickly due to a surprise diagnosis.  While I went through treatment, my students and coworkers were very kind to me and I knew that I wanted to come back to Japan—at least for a little while—and finish the adventure I had started.  Boy, am I glad I did that.  The past two years have been incredible and I have loved working with the students and staff here at Hello!s.  Know that you will all be missed and have made a permanent mark on my heart.  I hope that our paths will cross again someday and we can look back fondly on our time together.  With that hope in mind, I won’t say “goodbye” but will—instead—say, “see you later!”

(Michigan!  Can you find Holland?)