Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Wrapping up the School Year

It is somewhat of a surreal sensation to know that in less than a week and a half, all students will be going home and classes will have ended for the year. It seems like just last week that I first landed at Taipei International Airport and was getting ready for the school year to start.

In the past year, I feel as if I have learned more than I have ever learned in any other calendar year of my life. Not only did I make it through my first year teaching, with all of it's natural ups and downs, but I moved to a foreign country without knowing a soul there and figured everything out on my own. It is an understatement to say that I've learned life lessons this year.

As the year draws to a close however, I am realizing more and more that I am going to miss my students this summer. That's how you know you're a teacher apparently! In all seriousness, we send so much time with them here, seeing as how we all live under the same roof, that it will be strange to be away from all of them for so long. I'm sure we could all use the break from each other, but I'm also oddly getting excited for next year to start already...I think that's a good sign! :)

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