Student Exchange Programs

I have this coach who I’m sort of friends with. We met a few years ago but it’s only this past year and a half that I’ve been taking individual lessons under him. We’re one year apart. I’m pretty open with him and he seems to reciprocate the openness.

I enjoy his lessons and I have so much fun talking to this guy. He’s the funniest and the best. We exchanged personal e-mail addresses about half a year ago because he was training me for something else at the time and we needed it to communicate for about a month. We haven’t e-mailed since except to say Merry Christmas and etc. but that’s about it (I’m still taking his swim lessons) But I e-mailed him the other day because I noticed that he looked really down and I felt bad ignoring it and he seemed pleased that I wrote and he wrote back and etc.

We’ve been out to eat before but that’s only because he wanted to congratulate me for completing a race and I just happened to be the only person that wanted to give it a shot.

Anyway he’s leaving soon meaning he’s transferring out soon and I’ve been feeling really down. It’s not like he’s going to transfer far away but it’ll just be more costly for me to go there and I’m not sure I want to do that.

I’d like to still keep in touch but I’m not sure how he feels about that since I’m only a student. Should I forget about it? What would you do?