Chris and I can't believe how fast time has been flying! I guess we must be having some fun! :) But really, the weeks are flying by! We have just four more teaching weeks, one week to input and finish grades, and then the final week that involves fun, cleaning up the classroom, and hopefully some more fun. I'm going to use my students for manual labor to take down my classroom -- they'll think it's the coolest thing ever --and so will I!
But, there is so much to do between now and then. I still have a field trip to take my class on, as well as a "stay late day" at school from dismissal - 8:00pm. That will be a long day, but it should be lots of fun with Kindergarten through grade 2. The evening will include game-time in the gym, snacks, pajamas, movie, pizza for dinner, hide and go seek in the school with glow-sticks, and a worship singing time at the end with parents before the kids get picked up. It's been fun to plan, and by the time it comes and goes, I will be checking off the last day of graded instruction! Boogie Waga! (for those reading from the Heard side of the family)
Our last day of school is June 8th (which just happens to mark 5 years of time spent dating my best friend). I keep forgetting (kind of) that June 4th is our anniversary too! The fact that it falls on the Monday of our last week here kind of limits the possibilities of doing something to celebrate, and is also a little bit overshadowed by the fact that we get to come home to visit! So, I think that June 8th might be our default anniversary this year. . . besides, it's pretty cool to be able to say five years instead of one :)
More exciting news: we're moving! Next year we will be living in a different apartment, and we're SO excited about this! Here's why:
cool building?? now take a step back. . .
ok, just a regular building. now take a few more steps back. . .
YEP! that's the view from my classroom window! that's how close it is.
Can you say "convenient"!? (possibly the first time we've uttered those words here ;) I could not be more excited about this. No longer will we have to dread those hot and sweaty walks, breathing in exhaust to and from school. I've decided there aren't many things worse than arriving to school with sweat soaking your hairline and forming on the top of your upper lip. Sorry for the details, but it's one of the most annoying things to arrive to school feeling like you just got out of a sauna, and then having to open up your classroom that hasn't had AC on all night. It makes for an irritable me. Say no more to that! Our "walk" to school will literally be about 50 yards.
Add it to your prayer list that we can move in the week before we leave. It may seem like a little request, but it would take off so much pressure if all of our stuff was moved before arriving back here, when we also have to get our classrooms set up within two days for school.
Well, there's a little update from Jakarta! There's not much I can think about right now besides home. I'm trying really hard to be fully present here because there's still a lot to do and I still have a class of kids that need a teacher with her head in the right place. Chris and I both agree that "home" is wherever we are together, but neither of us can disagree with the fact that HOME is also where our families are waiting for us with open arms. Come on June 8th! :)
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