GOODBYE, FRIEND.

Dear Nick,

Today, your school, your students and your colleagues get together here to say goodbye.

Although words cannot show well enough how wonderful it has been having you here and how sad it is to keep going without all your wonderful virtues, we will try to do so.

This year, as always, this centre expected an average language assistant, but we didn’t know that we could have the luck to know someone as special as you.

We will miss your kind and patient teaching, your delicious cooking, your power point presentations, your English, French and Spanish with Andalusian accent, your artistic skills, your sensitivity and your brilliant ideas.

But, above all, we will miss you, because you did your best to help all of us. And do you know why? Because you put love in everything you do. That is your well-known secret.

We are sad because you are leaving, but happy for having the possibility of meeting you. You always say that one of your goals is to leave a place better than you found it.

Well, we can tell that you reached your goal in less than three months. And we hope that, in some way or another, we also improved your life.

Finally, as you love language because, as you say, it is magic and powerful, we would like to finish with this poem:

Nicholas Scott Hadley

Our dearest American boy,

You came to Iznájar with innocence

To meet nature, teaching 

and Spanish with joy.

Although you are only 23

Your experience made us grow

A mature and loving person

in you we could find.

We can tell that

Your favourite sentence:

“It’s easy”

Makes us crazy.

Don’t you know

we’re centuries behind?

We are older, slower 
and just fine?

Food is life,

life is love,

love is you.

Therefore,

We enjoyed your food,

And also your life,

we enjoyed you.

Who wants to see you again?

I guarantee all of us

Life isn’t finished

You can always come back.

I know it isn’t easy

But you have a whole life.

Have a good journey

Our young brave man.

Follow the path,

Embrace your destiny,

Live the present time.

Give the best of you

to the ones you meet and love.

Go on improving the world

as you did with us all.

We will miss you for sure

and in the future

we will remember you

as in a sweet dream

with all of our esteem.

                                                    By Estrella Díaz Gutiérrez