I bet you can come up with more catchy good-bye rhymes, I know my colleagues at the Province of North Holland are champions at rhymes. On to the big adventure across the pond – only 18 more days in the Netherlands.Īs I started this post with that all over the world famous good-bye verse, here it comes, a longer version. I will do my best to come back at this blog as often as I can and post a lot of sense and non-sense and share my adventures with everyone that wants to read them. I am most grateful for having had the opportunity to work with so many great people, thank you for the guidance and the lessons I’ve learned. It lifts my spirit and gives me even more confidence that this big step my family and I are taking will be a step towards a good new life. Thank you for encouraging me and letting me know you trust I will do well in the States. Thank you for the kind words, the speeches, the flowers, the signed card, the booklet from my team with a special and personal written good-bye, the book about The Province of North-Holland in English and for the many e-mails that I got. Thank you for the attention that you’ve put into choosing such an appropriate gift – I am cherishing my new bracelet charms, a moneybag charm and a tulip charm. It was a wonderful moment as they made sure I didn’t leave without a beautiful memory. Well the end of my last day at work is already in the past, I’ve said my goodbyes and my colleagues said their good-byes too. At the same time I found comfort in knowing that some of my colleagues will keep in touch once in while and a very few special colleagues are naturally shifting into being friends, as they say, some doors close and others open. As one alligator who has lost multiple crocodiles in her life, Darla provides encouragement to take the steps. With empathy and a touch of whimsy, the author walks through the stages of grief. It was strange to be there knowing that in a few hours I will leave and I won’t see many of the people I met at work, ever again most probably. See You Later Alligator, After While Crocodile explores the feelings and frustrations of those who have lost a loved one. It was strange to be there knowing that in a few hours I will leave my work into other skilled people’s hands. This past Thursday was my last day at work and quite a strange and special day it was. Long live and prosper Well, Im off Smoke me a kipper, Ill be back for. e, fry guy If I don’t see you around, Ill see you square. Ha, something new I learned today that might come in very handy later when my daughter will start learning rhymes. See you later, alligator After a while, crocodile. And in case you’d like to use a welcome song with the same tune as your goodbye song, I’ve included one below.Who doesn’t know this ‘good-bye’ verse? I guess the entire planet does and most people, myself included, know exactly this little verse but don’t know that there is more to it, it’s a children poem and song that’s been around for ages and you can actually add to it more rhymes, make up your own. If i figure out those tunes, I’ll update this post. The most common alternate version is sung to Clementine, but I’ve heard it at least two other ways. With my regular group I taped up the lyrics for the first year or two that I used it to encourage them to sing along, but it’s become familiar to enough participants that we do fine without. It’s wordier than most goodbye songs so if I’m visiting a group I don’t see regularly I’ll use a simpler, more intuitive song to end with. My colleague, Ning, taught me the Happy Birthday version, and I’ve been singing it as my primary closing song ever since. Phrase edit in a while, crocodile Au revoir, see you soon. You can sing this goodbye song to a few different tunes. Modification of a lyric from the song See You Later, Alligator (1955), chosen for the rhyme.
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