The school year is coming to an end; this is the final week of classes before our students get a week off and a new academic cycle begins.
The seven-year-olds are leaving our kindergarten program to attend regular elementary school and will now become members of our after school program, the six year olds are the new sevens, and a whole new influx of five year olds are coming to fill the baby classrooms.
Not that this really affects me, seeing as I'm going to be in India in T-Minus 12 days, but it's still a bit of an emotional time.
Not to mention, there's always the graduation ceremony.
Our six year olds "graduated" (they still have one more year left, but they have their own ceremony anyway) on Tuesday and although it was a stressful day, it was also pretty fun.
I was so proud of all of the students in all three classes, especially 6A1 (Caitlin's class) and 6A2 (my class), the six year old classes that I have come to know the best. First I got to see 6A2 frolic on stage in their Musical English (yes, that's a class) production of "The Jungle Book". Then 6A1 showed everyone what they'd learned through Dr Seuss' ABCs. This was followed by my class rocking their "When I Grow Up" speeches and finally 6A2 and 6B strutted their stuff in their Musical English production of "Peter Pan". It was ridiculously cute. Especially since the spider in "Peter Pan" (ya, I didn't know there was a spider in that story either but hey, this is, after all, Korea...)wore a Spider Man costume and the bat (again, I know...)was really Bat Man...
I have to say however that the star of the show, the one who really stole the limelight on this particular occasion was, as usual, yours truly.
Being the only person on staff who somehow managed to memorize the entire school motto along with all the kids (and seriously, this thing's epically long), I was asked to lead the students at the end of the ceremony. This was all fine and good until I stepped onto the stage for my introduction only to completely wipe out thanks to my four inch heals and the plastic-coated stage (words can't actually explain this fall... I promise I'll post a video as soon as the DVDs are available). No worries though: while the audience stared on in abject horror, Caitlin promptly picked me up and our director thrust the microphone into my hand. The recitation itself went off without a hitch!
Despite graduation being over and done with, we still have a week left of classes, which primarily consists of completing grammar textbooks. I have no doubt that it's going to be a brutal week, followed by a less-than-exciting training week. However, the countdown to India is now official and a new adventure is about to begin :D
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