A Year

It's totally hard to believe, that this is the last day of the school year!!!!  I really did do it!  I taught for a whole year.  Had been saying for a while that we were nearly there, and even at 1 o'clock, with half an hour to go, I was still saying 'well, nearly'.  But now it's totally true and dusted.

I am very proud of myself.  I don't think I did the best job ever, and still often feel like a fraud, but people have been saying kind things to me and I am surely no where near as much of a fraud as I was at the beginning of the year.  Why wasn't I so much more nervous then, I was clueless!!!!  I got some lovely presents from the kids and really kind words from the parents which mean the moon to me!

I felt a little emotional, but only slightly.  We were trying to read the last two chapters of the Enchanted Wood in the last half hour, and initially I couldn't find the book which was fairly comical!  But in that they were saying good bye to each other and I did feel a little pull at the heartstrings thinking that would be me and them soon! 

But oddly, the most emotional I felt, was as I was taking my stuff to the car, having tidied my classroom and I was hanging up my badge and switching off the lights.

And the afternoon ended nicely too :-)