'The End Of June' in the life of a teacher: Bittersweet! Seven weeks of summer vacation and everyone seems to have something to celebrate before we scatter back to our home countries or onto long anticipated adventures... weddings, summer birthdays, farewells to leaving colleagues. We celebrate for the occasion, of course, but also I think we celebrate with the knowledge, somewhere in the back of our minds, that we won't see these friends until August, or in some cases ever again. This group of people that have made up our everyday lives abroad and boom... gigantic diaspora. The nature of the international school beast is its constant comings and goings and I agreed to it when I started this occupation; but that doesn't make The End of June any easier! The best thing to do that I have come up with is to celebrate. We'll celebrate them and us and the sun and say goodbye. Goodbye!
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