Ahhhhhhhh

So yesterday was the last day of school, and today I feel hungover. I'm tired, drained and completely satisfied with the way the year ended. I shed many tears with my departing students, and if I could have, I would have held on to them so they wouldn't leave. But this the nature of the job. We work very hard, trying to give these kids the best experience that they can get, and then in a few congratulatory words and warn embraces, it is all over. As quickly as it began, it quickly ends, and we hand the kids back to their parents who will put them in day camps for the summer, quietly awaiting fall's arrival.

And me? Well, let's just say the beach was graced with my white-pasty skinned presence shortly after I left school yesterday. And now I wonder what's up ahead on the horizon. For today, a nap, some reading and a trip to Target. Soon enough I will be off to Florida, back to VA, then out to CA and then, back to school.