It's over. After 10 months of lesson plans and lectures, laughing at the students antics and and after school tutoring, it's done. The last week and a half of school went by really fast and were filled with lots of memories. During the last week I took a student to the hospital, played lots of review games, and did all I could to make sure all of my seniors ended up graduating. The last two days, finals, were the most memorable. Since Mr. Alex had to leave early I had to cover as the sophomore homeroom teacher. I was kind of excited to do that, first of all I hate my quiet mornings with the seniors gone, and second the sophomores seem like a second homeroom class to me. We sang songs in the morning, I lead a devotional, and we hung out and finished up the few finals they still needed to take. I taught some of them dutch blitz and they painted their names on my guitar case. Tuesday was my favorite. In the morning we finished up our finals. I gave the sophomore class one of those directions tests just for fun. You know the one that says "read all instructions before beginning" and then proceeds to ask them to do silly things like "shout out your name", "wave your hand in a circle" etc.. the last question read "now that you have finished reading all the instructions do not answer any of the questions, write your name and turn it in quietly". I told them they had to follow the instructions and I would give them extra credit. It was hilarious! The were shouting their names and waving their hands around, following all the questions. When they realized what they did they yelled out "What kind Ms! No!!". They had fun though, I could tell :). To end the day we had a big assembly for all of high school. We showed them the picture show we put together for them and I gave them all cookies one more time. We did a little trivia game about ourselves throwing out candy for all the right answers. The last question we answered was the one they have been asking us all year "how old are you". As promised we revealed our ages on the last day, many of them were quite shocked to hear I was only 20. We ended with telling them how much we love them and what an impact they have made in our lives. We told them we would miss them. The last hour of the day they just took pictures with us and tried to convince us to stay another year. When the final bell rang showing school was out, I felt so sad; I couldn't believe it was really over. Here are a couple of experiences from the week I never want to forget....
- Singing and playing the guitar with my students, they teach me a few songs and I teach them the names of chords, they usually just play by ear.
-One of the sophomore girls I have gotten to know the best was sitting by herself on the stairs during lunch. I could tell something was wrong so I took a seat next to her and asked her. She started talking to me about what was on her mind and told me why she was upset. I talked to her for a while and gave her a hug and she said "you know Ms. I'm really really going to miss you next year".
-Some notes I received on the last day "Ms. you are the best math teacher I have ever had, thank you." "My favorite memory was on Wes's birthday when we creamed Ms. Willis face with frosting, it was funny and really fun" "Math isn't my best subject, but the teacher was the best. I'm really glad I was on your team at the Pathfinder camp"...
-Sitting on the beach talking and hanging out with the students at their class parties Friday.
-Hearing all the youth sing "A home in Micronesia" during church to us as a thank you for all we have done.
This week I have a few more beach parties, some more time with students, graduation set up, and running graduation; and then it's over. Last Tuesday Jesse left, tonight Sophie leaves and next Sabbath I have to board the plane and say goodbye to Yap. I know it's time for me to leave.. but a piece of my heart will always be here.
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