Half of our team left Xiamen today, the other half will leave next day. Today, two of us went home and four of us (Megan, Vani, Michael, me) left for a new challenge: trying to survive a few days in Beijing without interns! We kept our local mobile numbers, thus we can stay in touch with each other and in case of emergency we can try to reach out for help. Tomorrow the rest of the team will also split, some going to Hong Kong and the rest going home.

It wasn't easy to leave colleagues and interns behind when leaving to the airport. It took me some time to know them better, but I learned to appreciate each of them over the past weeks. It was great working, living, and making fun together! Time pressure to leave to the airport helped to keep saying goodbye short. I left with Vani and Megan our interns behind at airport security.

Time will fly, friendships will weaken, but I remember all of you and hopefully we see each other again somewhere on this smarter planet. I try to stay in touch!

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Our team - clockwise : Bart - Amit - Megan - Christy - Cecily