Today was the last day of school. The last day I would be a 10.2 form teacher and the last day I would teach my upper school media students.

I have been spending the past few days praying for and writing thank you notes to my students. I wanted to say thank you for all I have learnt from knowing them and for the privilege of them letting me into their worlds. I feel have grown as a person because of them, that somehow our interactions together have shaped me to some extent. I wanted to thank them because though I might of taught them but I feel somehow I may have parted with the better end of the deal.

So with these thank you notes I wanted to give them something that would enable them to see themselves the way I see them: great, gifted, beautiful people full of so much potential; more than I think they even realise. I wanted to speak their futures into life.

I felt so blessed today. My year 11′s threw a surprise party for me in class, but the finality of it being the last day only really hit me when 3 of the girls gave me the most awesome gift I have ever received: a video they produced wishing me farewell! Watching it almost made me cry, it was so beautifully thoughtful!

I don’t know how I should be feeling right now, except bittersweet. It feels so sad to leave, I am missing it already. I just wanted to share with you some of the other tokens of appreciation I received today that warmed my heart…

From the year 10′s: I’m glad they forgave me for all the infringements I gave them!

This one just made me laugh.. had to include it, it says ‘Emo for Miss Tsang’. Haha!

From the year 11′s: I loved the private study periods that seemed more like crowd control than anything else!

This entry was posted on Friday, July 4th, 2008 at 12:27 am and is filed under Life, Relationships, Work. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.