Thursday, September 27, 2012

Macau, Here's My Notice:

So the real reason I've been quiet in September...

I am leaving THODW.

This is not a decision I have made lightly and it hurts my heart to make, but it has been done.

My last day at work is December 17th and I will be home just before Christmas.

Macau has come to be my home. I have lived here longer than I have anywhere else since leaving school some time ago. My friends are here, my life experiences are here, I have a chameleon, a hamster, a wonderful roommate, and, naturally, too much crap. I've had some of the best times of my life, made some of the best friends of my life, met some not so great people, had some really crappy times.

But for all the good and all the bad, Macau has been everything I needed to come to terms with myself as a person and to better understand that I don't need to plan everything out in life. Sometimes you make a two year commitment to work in a place halfway around the world, not wanting to leave home and everything you know, and you find that somewhere along the way your heart split into two places and you find yourself torn between "Home is where the heart is" and "Home is home".

Macau will always be such an important part of my life and I would not trade anything I have experienced here for all the gold in Asia (quite a lot, I bet).

Now for my Macau friends: Ya'll are amazing and without any of you, I would not have made it two and a half years out here, 7,000 miles away from home. When I got here, it felt like 20,000 miles because of the cultural difference. I have learned that maybe the most important thing about making a place home is the people. I cannot thank all of ya'll enough for everything. EVERYTHING. Letting me cry about being homesick, taking me home from the pub if I needed it, buying me a shot if I needed it, pulling me onto your lap and giving me a bear hug, all the hugs, all the bad jokes, the late night dancing, the karaoke, the dinners, the pool days, the amazing trips. I will literally remember them the rest of my life. And you.

I hope that this is not goodbye for all of you here because I suck at goodbyes. I will see ya'll all again. In New Orleans, in Australia, in London, maybe even in China, because I certainly don't know where I'm going to end up and that's ok. But when we do meet again, let's grab a beer (or several...), maybe some nachos, and tell old stories and laugh and remember how much we went through to create the biggest show in the world. It has its flaws, holy moly does it ever, but I'm pretty damn proud of what we did.

I am going to miss the hell out of all ya'll. Come visit me, I promise we have better beer in Louisiana! :)

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