You know people for some time, you get used to them, you like them, you give them so much and then... they just leave school and everything ´s over.

 

I ´ve just said goodbye to the students I taught for 2 years. It ´s so difficult for me, because I really loved them and it was a great thing to work with them.

 

I really hate saying goodbye to my students - I always get so involved that it really costs me a lot. What a sad day for me.

I know exactly how you feel. I experienced it after i had to leave the first school i taught in. I thought i would not survive. I cried together with my students. But then, when i saw my university professor who taught Shakespeare there, she said "Maybe it ´s your mission to work in different places and make a difference in some other students � lives as well."
And she was right. I have left a few marks in a few different schools and it ´s such a joy to see the (grown up) students in the street and return their ´hello ´s � and wide smiles and stop for a short chat and hear from them "we never forgot your classes and you ... "
You ´ll see.

EDIT: No, i´m not out yet. Waiting for hubby to get ready. And he´s annoying me by plucking his guitar strings .... Grrr!

 

And I have to do it every year, and it ´s not getting less painful. Of course I know that I can ´t stop  my students - they have to carry on with their lives.

Hi, Winky

Don ´t cry, because it is over
Smile, because you had such a privilege.


And years to come,
you will meet them again
And then
You are going to want to cry again
Because they are no longer
your kids, your teens
And because you will notice
That time goes by
And then, you will learn
What life is.

I understand you so well.


I love teachers who love their students
Congrats