Despididas

Despidida time - so sad. For those of you who are wondering, "what is a despidida?", this is a goodbye party. Many of you may also think the life of an expat wife is a priveledged life and that may be true in some senses, but it does come at a price. We make friends quickly and lose them just as quickly. In this case we are saying goodbye to three of the ladies at the table. One is returning to Texas, one is moving on to China and another is heading back to her home in the USA. One more was unable to attend because the moving situation was in complete craziness and she is not even sure where she will be living when the kids enter school in the fall. And so, we all LOOK happy here, but its really a time when we wonder how we can possibly say goodbye again and is it really worth making more friends if they are just going to leave...The great expat dilemma...