And You Always Said Hello
After next week, my first semester at Ban Huaymongkol will officially come to a close. The constant fury of lesson planning, staff meetings, and school events are going to come to a halt (mostly) for the month of October. My students will take their English final exam, then be on their way to ride their bikes or play soccer from sun up to sun down. I wrote the letter you are about to read knowing that they would probably never see it, and even if they did they probably would not know what it meant. But it still felt important to put into words. I think it encompasses my experiences of my first semester fairly well so I wanted to share it on this blog: Dear Students, I am writing you from my living room couch the night before your final exams begin. You're almost done! Another semester has come and gone. I know you're relieved and ready for a break, just as much as your teachers are. I will confess something to all of you: when I first started thinking about you