That’s for Caroline.
I travelled on my own to Australia and,
although it was something that I had dreamt of for a really long time, you can’t
really help it when you feel that you are alone in a big unknown place. I
started uni and Caroline was the first girl I met there. It was funny when we
were both speaking in English and all of a sudden I said: “you’re from Uruguay
so you must speak Spanish” and we both laughed. It was weird to speak Spanish again
with someone haha.
It was so good to meet her the first weeks
and it took us less than a second to become good friends. When you travel on
your own, you meet people that become your friends, your family and ultimately,
they become a crucial piece of your own person. Caroline is one of those people
and one of the reasons why I am sad right now. I really do not want to leave
Australia, and I really do not want to be so far from her.
In order to spend a good last week
together, we decided to go Stand Up Paddle board because any of us had done it
before and because we had been saying it for a long time. So here we go, to the
Currumbin Creek after an awesome morning surfing in Fingal.
We arrived at the shop, we rented the SUPs
and we walked to the creek. It was good fun to see our skills to turn when we
got in the water haha it took us a bit to realise that, even though the river
was quite wide, there was no need to use it all to make a turn haha. We became
professionals after a couple of minutes and we decided that we did not have
enough with just paddling. I needed something else and we started with the
handstand’s challenge.
It was not easy to do and we changed to
headstands after a while. Caroline was pretty chilled on the board and this
could not last for the whole SUP adventure so I just pushed her in the water
with me. Actually, I have tried to make her an hyperactive girl since I met her
but the long walks to Rainbow and my tendency to get up at 5am to go surfing
did not make her change her mind haha. She revenged afterwards and while we
were trying to put a foot on each board and paddle, she bailed me, the boards
fell apart and I went to the water again haha. My legs are still sore of trying
to keep the boards together without Caroline’s help :P
The headstands ended up with laughs and
getting wet every now and on. Caroline did the best attempt and scream ever and
fell before she could reach half of what could have been an epic handstand
haha. Clumsiness included whilst trying to put
the GoPro on the bridge, when having a go to a double SUP and turning fast to
dodge or follow each other, the SUP morning could not have been any better.
Thanks Caroline for being a good friend and
for becoming one of the most important persons in my life. This is what I wrote
for you on the postcard and I am going to write it here again.
I will miss all the moments we have had
together, all the laughs, all the dinners and all the nice walks on the beach.
The surf sessions with you (when it is summer and you don’t need a wetsuit),
the talks about life, about friends, the gossipier ones and the deeper ones. I
will miss having you around, I will miss your company, I will miss the rides on
your scooter and how we struggle to get to the top of the hill; and yes, I will
miss going out sometimes with you haha. I will miss spending time with you, I
will miss the turtles, the dolphins, the nights in surfers, the nights in
Cooly, the sunsets in Greenmount, the afternoons in my veranda. I will miss
surfing while you get tanned (or red) on the beach and I will mainly miss all
the moments I have had with you.
The most beautiful things in the world can't
be seen or touched. And here it is when friendship appears to be the nicest
thing in the world. You can’t touch it, you can’t physically see it and you don’t
learn about it. You just feel it, you just know it is there and it is something
that you want to keep forever. If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship
throughout your life you haven’t really learned anything at all.
I am so happy to have had the chance to
meet you, to be your friend and to be part of your life whilst you have been
part of mine too. I don’t want to say bye so I will just say “see you soon”
wherever! You know you have a home anywhere I am.
Thank you beautiful girl for crossing my
path.
I love you so much and I will miss you more!
