This I guess is another week down and one more closer to the time when I go home. This week holds some pretty cool things hopefully. I know at the end of the week I’ll be saying goodbye to the 3rd quarter and saying hello to the 4th quarter. That means that there is only 49 days of school left, a week of vacation, then HOME……well really not home, but I hear that I might actually get to see all my immediate family at the airport. I had thought that I wouldn’t, but that could make anyone’s day. Even though I’ll be severely jetlagged at that point, I’ll be very grateful to see everyone.
This week has certainly started out much better than last week, although, I have a strain of the flu virus. Kind of frustrating, but hey, what can I do? I will say that being this far from home is tough to be sick. When you don’t have mom to take care of you, you have to do a lot to keep well.(I know mom, you are feeling bad about that) It's all good though, you brought me up well enough to know how to take care of myself to get myself well again.
Today is the funeral of the student that died last week. I don’t know exactly what to expect by it, but hey, it gets me out of a few hours of classes, which I have to say I’m not to sad about it.
One of my fellow teachers said to me at the beginning of the year that they weren’t sure whether or going to funerals of people we didn’t know was very good. Now that I’ve been to one that is of someone I knew, I think I’d much rather go to one that I really didn’t know the person. Whereas the funeral is much different than in the states, they are interesting over here. My student didn’t look anything like him, which I’m sure is because they couldn’t get him to look right after him hanging himself. Honestly I hope it is the last funeral that I have to go to in quite some time; they certainly aren’t the most fun use of my time.
The last few weeks have been very tension filled; I hope that for the next few weeks it cools down for a while. Although another one of our teachers is leaving this next Monday, health reasons as well I guess. I guess I should start getting used to it by now, from now on, when the end of April hits we will slowly start loosing them. So long as we don’t loose any more students, that is the important thing.
Well this blog takes me to two very big days of my life. First is Beth and my one year anniversary. Kind of hard to believe, but it is true. The second event is the start of 4th quarter. The beginning of the end, the tail end, the closing, there are many names for it, but the meaning is still the same, me being home and sooner and sooner than it has been.
I’m not exactly sure how many days it is now, but I know it should be somewhere into the 70’s now. I know that it is right around 10 weeks, which would be exactly 70, but I know that I’m not leaving on the last day of classes; I’m waiting a half a week for graduation. I guess I should say I’m hopefully waiting for graduation. I’m waiting assuming that it happens on time. IF it is late, then I’m not going to be there for the end, I’ll only be there for the beginning. I guess I’ll have to wait and see what is going to happen.
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