Last weekend was our staff party to celebrate the end of the year. It was filled with many emotions... excitement, happiness, sorrow, and hope! We were all pretty excited and happy to be so close to finishing up a year of teaching, but emotions were high, as a grade 10 student at our school suddenly died in an accident just days before the party. We had a tribute to him, as well as some farewell speeches to teachers that are leaving Vietnam this year. The end of the year has been a tough one for the staff, as a maintenance worker also passed away in recent weeks. I think many of us are hopeful that next year will be even better than this one. It's hard to believe that one year has already come and gone, and that we'll be heading back to Canada for the summer!
This year we made some great friends, and I'm sure next year we'll make some new friendships as well. I'm looking forward to the new school year, but I'm REALLY looking forward to coming home. Only 16 more days!!!
Familiar - end of the year is always a combination of the joy of accomplishment in getting through a full year, mixed with the tragic circumstances of life that cannot be predicted. That's why your post called 'Life' is so good (paste it here).
ReplyDeleteI remember back to MANY "end of the year" celebrations and you are right...it is ALWAYS a combination of emotions...of a job WELL DONE, of happy events as well as sad...be it a parting of ways with people that you have come to know and respect or in this case, tragedy that you will never forget. Perhaps the greatest party of all will be coming back to your home and native land!!!!!!!!!!
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