Wednesday 10 June 2009

:(

Right well I guess these are my last few days on Svalbard (*although, I will be coming back!) ...

This is the part I hate the most: everybody is leaving and going back to their home which quite often is half way round the world. I kinda forgot this time would come again, and it's difficult thinking that one moment they are there and the next they are gone.

I had my last exam yesterday (let's not talk about it!), and so I've been so preoccupied studying, that I haven't even managed to say goodbye to half the people here. Right now I'm still ok, but I know it will be really tough on the last day. This year has really gone by in a flash, and I would do it all over again.

Summer is on it's way, and there is now lots of life. I can hear foxes, little auks, geese and snow buntings just outside my barrack. A real contrast to what it has been like for the past few months.

*But anyways, maybe I didn't mention this before, but as soon as I get back to the UK next Sunday, I am heading back to Norway (out of all places) to trek round the Jotunheimen region, and then I'm flying back to Svalbard in July to count reindeer with the Norwegian Polar Institute (for 2 weeks). So in a sense I know I will see Svalbard again very soon, but it won't be the same without all the people :(

 

posted by Yann Rashid on 11:59

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