We made it! The school year officially ended for students yesterday after an awards ceremony and some time for yearbook signing. For teachers, the year ended today at 10:30 when the director opened his door to begin signing our check-out sheets. Our rooms are cleaned, student files turned in to the directors, and furniture moved to the center of the room for whatever happens while we're away during the summer.
On Friday, once again, I was struck by how well-rehearsed our students are at saying goodbye. I commented on this back in my post in December. We've signed up for a transient lifestyle. Students and teachers come and go. For us, it's a sad time of year saying goodbye to all the other teachers who have become our family away from home.
Tonight we're part of the "party plane", the Lufthansa flight from Almaty to Frankfurt that many of the teachers head out on. We're going with our friends Brock and Cathy to Europe, first visiting one of Brock's friends in Düsseldorf. Afterwards, we're on to De Klinge, Belgium to show them why this little country is so great! We're also using this opportunity to lighten our load. We'll be checking in tonight with some things that we haven't used here and some things we just don't want to have to move with when we finally leave Kazakhstan, probably next year. We've also decided to take our bicycles to Belgium to live with our family there. Kazakhstan, at least Almaty, seems a little stressful for me for bicycling, nothing like the cycling around De Klinge.
Here's to the start of a great summer!
On Friday, once again, I was struck by how well-rehearsed our students are at saying goodbye. I commented on this back in my post in December. We've signed up for a transient lifestyle. Students and teachers come and go. For us, it's a sad time of year saying goodbye to all the other teachers who have become our family away from home.
Tonight we're part of the "party plane", the Lufthansa flight from Almaty to Frankfurt that many of the teachers head out on. We're going with our friends Brock and Cathy to Europe, first visiting one of Brock's friends in Düsseldorf. Afterwards, we're on to De Klinge, Belgium to show them why this little country is so great! We're also using this opportunity to lighten our load. We'll be checking in tonight with some things that we haven't used here and some things we just don't want to have to move with when we finally leave Kazakhstan, probably next year. We've also decided to take our bicycles to Belgium to live with our family there. Kazakhstan, at least Almaty, seems a little stressful for me for bicycling, nothing like the cycling around De Klinge.
Here's to the start of a great summer!
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