Godspeed

-Eh, you're still here? What exam did you have?
-[ gulped my last sip of water ] Oh no, was in the library, studying a bit.
[giggles]
-[laughs] I'm going to miss that laugh.

I don't think that that was the last of her, my Biology lecturer. Maybe once or twice more before I bid au revoir.

It was rather expected but it was till unexpected. She left the all all gaping unanimously at her announcement. Just having completed her doctorate, it is only sensible for her to graze in greener pasture,expand her horizon and embrace greatness.

-How can she simply leave us like that...?
-We're gonna be lost next year...
-Can't she stay, just for 2 more months, complete the syllabus, then leave...?
-Don't think so.

She was the strictest of them all, but also, the one most closest to us. She even created an 'imaginary girlfriend' for a classmate and went as far a to excuse him whenever he disrupted the class with sonorous noises of imagined love-making and domestic brawls.

Needless to say, we were all happy when she told us she will be taking 2 weeks leave. She had an oral examination in UK. 2 weeks of bliss. 2 weeks of not being serious with the most information-laden subject.

-oh, how sweet! She's not here!!! NO BIO!!!
-Wei, show some respect, she's the teacher...

That shut me up and clouded my mind for so long till one day, while having shower, I realized that my joy was not substantiated by her absence but by the fact that we would not be having classes because of her absence.

Instead of 2 weeks, the bleak future holds possible an eternity of her absence. There are many things in life that I'm not sure of, but, I know one thing for sure - We are going to miss her, dearly.