The Best Obsessed and Oppressed YET!

Obsessed That's right I'm obsessed with all of youuuu...those people that I experienced some of the greatest moments of my life with these past few months. This is inclusive of everyone you see here but definitely not limited to. I am beyond thankful and appreciative to have been able to share my life with you and to be invited into yours. Because of you, I grew exponentially as a person, I lived, ate (sometimes tearfully with Bryce), laughed, and shared irreplaceable moments. I left the country for the first time to be transplanted into Sevilla, España. The transition would have been a lot more difficult had it not been for you. Thank you to Steven and Nicole of ASA for being our confidants, friends, teachers, parents, babysitters for Luke, and guides into exploring unknown territory. Thanks to Teresa for opening your home to Bryce and me. Thanks to Marta and Javi for helping all of the guiris to become acclimated to the new culture of Spain and UPO and for being selfless with your time. Thanks for devoting your time to helping others. To all of my professors: Clara, Lucía, Monje, and Jose I appreciate y'all for your patience, understanding, and ability to teach and make it interesting. I have improved as a speaker beyond my own belief. Thanks to my classmates for your ability to make mistakes, mess up, and miss classes right along with me. Thanks to all my friends that I made in Sevilla! All the Spaniards, Japanese, Americans, French, Canadian, Germans and everybody else under the sun. You enriched my life just for being here and I know that every one of you played I vital part in me understanding more about myself and life that I never knew before. I appreciate you for who you are and I am sure that we will cross paths again it is only a matter of time. Until then, I love you for real. So if nobody tells you today, I just did and you can keep checking it everyday just to remember because it won't change.

Enrique Montaño...hands down one of the greatest people I have ever met in my life. I could list a million positive things that I gained from knowing you and it still wouldn't be enough to equate the effect that you have had on my life. It is rare when you can find people who can meet a stranger and make them feel like you've known them for years. Search for dependable, driven, unique, individual, hilarious, and selfless in the dictionary and it better have you in the caption. If not I will put it in there ...sooo blessed to know you and it shan't stop here. To all the ASA peeps..I love y'all in every single way. So many personalities and so many attitudes and I wouldn't have changed it for the world. We hit it off, we got on, we did the damn thing and nobody can take that away from us. I could go on and on about all y'all's beauty inside and out but I think it will be better if we save that for a conversation in the future, that way we will always have a reason to keep in touch. I appreciate you..make me glad you came! Bryce awesome roommate, the yin to my dysfunctional yang, the butter to my grits, and the salsa rosa to my pastel de atún. Thanks for all the awesome moments and movie/tapas/walking dates. You're the best thing since slightly yellow white bread. Oppressed TIME <------- Time is my biggest oppressor at the moment and rightfully so. Time didn't care how many more moments I needed, how many more mornings I wanted in Sevilla, how many more days I might have wanted in Rome, how many more hours I wouldn't have wanted staring into space in randoms spots through Europe, or how many more laughs I wanted to have, or how many more hugs and dos besos I needed to give. Time kept moving and didn't care that while it tore me from my new home that parts of my heart were gripping to the bridges, to the sidewalks, and every doorknob that I could find. I pulled and pulled and till I lost grips and the pieces now lay orphaned all throughout Sevilla. For that I despise you. This is not a period to end the story this is only a comma and the times will continue but right now it's slightly surreal. We have lots more the talk about until then tell somebody you love them!