Collected Item: “Farewell to Edinburgh”
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Farewell to Edinburgh
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Instagram post
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I was on exchange in Edinburgh in the first half of 2020, and was forced to return home to Melbourne 3 months early. This was an incredibly sad and confusing time, where so many of my plans and dreams for the rest of exchange were scuppered. Things moved at a breakneck pace. My first exchange friend decided to leave Edinburgh on the 12th March, and by the 18th March I was flying home to Melbourne, having made dozens of rushed goodbyes in the previous few days. This object is a farewell post I made on Instagram, with 10 photos with my friends in Edinburgh. It sums up the mixed emotions I felt in those days - sadness, fondness, nostalgia, gratitude.
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#goodbye, #farewell, #edinburgh, #instagram, #sad, #nostalgia, #friends, #exchange, #travel, #borders
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Instagram
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2020-03-18