I managed to meet up with the CBLC folks for my birthday:
..as well as my French Immersion (FI) gals at Marmalade Pantry:
which brought back memories of this:
..and the food is good but once you have tasted the sticky date cake, everything pales in comparison. It is mind-boggling, fantastically, tongue-whipping GOOD !!! I'm going to go there just for desert next time..
I also managed to catch 5 movies, out of which 3 were movie premiers (thanks to Nana):
- Born Into Brothels
- Spider Lilies (p)
- Pirates 3
- 鬼啊 鬼啊 !! (p)
- Ocean 13 (p)
I've also met up with the SEC to celebrate mine and Koala's birthday, though not much in way of pictures.
Plus I did tons of readings and shopping and driving lessons as well as at least one beer-tasting session at Brewerks.
Settled the NIE stuff, almost faithful with orchestra practice and Sunday runs, gone back to school a few times, did a CSC meeting and dinner and survived the brother's presence at home for a couple of days without us murdering each other.
Looking back, it was quite an accomplished holiday.
Now, the classes are no longer mine. I'm leaving soon. In the best interests of the students and the new teacher, I am trying not allow myself to be too attached to them and vice-versa. The most important thing is rapport when it comes to a teacher-student relationship and I would like to step aside to at least give someone a chance to build rapport with them. It's not easy to be the one to take over classes, half-way through the year when relationships have already established themselves.
I'm thinking I might miss them.
I'm thinking that there will always be students next year.
I'm thinking that children are frivolous by nature. I didn't remember the short stints of teachers that came and went.
I'm thinking that I will wonder too much over whether I am going to be sad, leaving them, to be actually sad.
THAT at least is a good thing.
Reaching the end of summer soon and a new season starts.
I wonder what will happen and who will I meet....and who then will I leave behind again?
