- Eating dinner with my nagabutsu aisu hokei team
- Practicing softball while the sun sets
- Teaching 3 English classes and 3 PE classes in one day
- Coaching basketball early Saturday morning
- Having a oyster explode on the grill
- Laughing with my coworkers over BBQ
- Driving by my favorite lake and lookout point
- Walking to work
- Getting a ride halfway to work
- Stamping the office car book with my seal
- Driving the no-fun car
- Writing speeches and working past bedtime
There's a last time for everything...and today is my LAST DAY AS AN (official) EMPLOYEE OF SHIBECHA TOWN'S BOARD OF EDUCATION!
Where have 2 years gone?
I'm not counting down the days until I leave this village. I'm not. Really. I know I count down every time I am getting ready to come home, but this time I'm not ready to come home.
I am trying to hang on to every last minute, every last walk to work, every last walk home with my students, every last English class, every last laugh with my friends, every last dinner party. Today I'll go to my big junior high, the first school I taught at, the school where I coach basketball. It's fitting that my last day will end with my first school. And I'll give a speech today up on a stage in a suit thanking the students for always greeting me with "Good morning" (no matter what time it is) and telling me they're hungry. And I hope not to cry too much in the process.
I lay in bed this morning and thanked God for these 2 years. 2 blessed years. I never would've imagined. This is not where I thought I'd be 2 years out of college, and there's no place I'd rather be. God's ways are higher than mine, and I'm so glad they are.
Soak it up, Kar :) There won't be another time like this, though there will be good times in other ways to come. And when you say you're on stage in a suit, all I'm picturing is a Sue Sylvester track suit..red with white stripes to be exact.
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