2. My friend Ki

Dear Ki,

It was so good talking with you the other night. You know, I enjoy every moment talking with you because we feel so free to talk about anything. We can talk and share about anything which we don’t need to pretend or hide our feelings.  I can reveal any of my feelings to you and I am so exposed in front of you. Just because we know each other very well for the pass, let me see, should be ten years, which is really a long time, isn’t it?

Do you  remember the first year we went to the same school as student teachers? That was the time we started to know each other. Then in that summer, we were at the same ferry pier heading to the airport to UK for the immersion programme. There I saw your family. Since we were going to different centres in UK, we wrote letters to each other within that month, and that was the only letter I wrote in UK. 

You are also the only friend who goes travelling with me. Though it was only a short trip to mainland, I felt so happy to go travelling with my friend, not my family. It was my first experience going out with a friend and it was so great. I remember we had the facial treatment and pillow talks in the hotel room.

Then in my wedding, you were all the way with me. You gave me support and helped me a lot as if it was your wedding. I felt so grateful to you, the little girl wearing dark red blouse and black skirt standing next to me in my wedding picture. I felt so touched for all your help in the wedding.

There are more and more. We experienced a lot and got to know each other for all these years. Now we become very good friends, should be my life friend – you are the most important friend in my life. It’s really true. You know me the most and stay with me the most even though we don’t see each other very often after we have our own families. You are staying here on my mind all the time. You are always the one I turn to whenever I want to share my feeling. Thanks for being my friend and staying with me whenever I feel down. Hope we can meet more and in the future, with our kids too.

Ayako