The clocks in my classrooms are slowly ticking off the minutes as summer holidays approach. There always seems to be a million things piled into the final days of the year at school... grades, comments, exams, extra help, saying goodbye, packing boxes, anticipating holidays, anticipating September and a million other details. The end of the year is all about taking care of details.
The final days have the kids have been intentionally low-key. The consensus is that we've done what we can, we're offering help to those who want it in the extra blocks, but it's likely too late to cram anything new or profound into their overly-taxed brains. And I'm okay with this assessment... my own mental status would read: "Checked out" if I could hook up an announcement board to it.
I'm excited but stressed about my upcoming trip to Yunnan, just because I may have to do it sans-passport (mine will possibly stay in Dalian as the process my residency paperwork). And my timeline for moving my things from my apartment and re-acquiring my passport before I need to go back to Dalian is pretty tight, as I fly in on Thursday the 8th and leave on the afternoon of the 10th. You gotta love timezone changes, though... I leave at about 1pm China time, and even after flying to Tokyo before Vancouver, I still arrive in Vancouver 3 hours earlier on the same day that I left.
This hasn't been the most exciting entry, but my creative brain isn't exactly in overdrive right now. I'm distracted by my schedule and my mess of a desk, and maybe also by my efforts to watch the rest of a season of Dexter while tuning into all the World Cup games possible.
As my new, official sign-off while the World Cup is on... GO SLOVENIA!
T
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