And so it ends...
My last day at my last school finished with the first class of the day.
I think because of all the emotions that I went through in the last 12 months, this last week has left me empty on the emotional front.
Certainly I feel a little bit of sadness at leaving the junior high school that I've taught at this past year, but I'm more calm about this than I expected.
I guess I let it all out like a balloon letting out air through many tiny pinholes. Particularly during my last week at my other city, where it was nothing but issues of the emotional sort for me. So instead of bursting and me becoming a sponge of feels, I am at this state of neutrality. Probably because this school has always been my neutral zone. The area where I'm away from all the emotions and factors that would pound against my mentality, so to finish here was the anti-climatic way to end my year. But don't get me wrong, I mean that in the best way possible. I would rather go calmly into the night than out like fireworks with a bang.
I'm done. It's been bumpy. But hopefully I take everything that I've experienced here and turn it into something that will help me become a better person and for a little while longer, a better teacher.
I think because of all the emotions that I went through in the last 12 months, this last week has left me empty on the emotional front.
Certainly I feel a little bit of sadness at leaving the junior high school that I've taught at this past year, but I'm more calm about this than I expected.
I guess I let it all out like a balloon letting out air through many tiny pinholes. Particularly during my last week at my other city, where it was nothing but issues of the emotional sort for me. So instead of bursting and me becoming a sponge of feels, I am at this state of neutrality. Probably because this school has always been my neutral zone. The area where I'm away from all the emotions and factors that would pound against my mentality, so to finish here was the anti-climatic way to end my year. But don't get me wrong, I mean that in the best way possible. I would rather go calmly into the night than out like fireworks with a bang.
I'm done. It's been bumpy. But hopefully I take everything that I've experienced here and turn it into something that will help me become a better person and for a little while longer, a better teacher.