What an Impact

While subbing at Haus Bad Riedlingen, we had a chance to meet three BFA alumni who had graduated a little less than 10 years ago.  They were returning to the dorm in which they had lived.  It was heart touching to hear them talk about their time at BFA and HBR.  One of the former students shared that he remembered the day that his parents dropped him off.  He described how much he did not want them to leave him there, how much he was not ready to attend BFA, how upset he was at his situation.  He shared that difficult time with us, with a smile on his face, as he continued to walk through the dorm.  The smile was there because as we entered each room, a different memory was sparked in his mind.  By the time we returned to the main entrance, he was describing how he felt on graduation day.  He described how he did not want to leave BFA or HBR, how he was not ready to move on to the next stage of his life without his dorm brothers or those who had touched his life from BFA, and how upset he was that his situation was calling for exactly that, moving on.  Once he left, we had some time to interact with the boys who live in HBR this year, and it made me wonder if they would one day return with such fond memories of both their school and dorm.  I pray that they do.