El Fin

Today was the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL.  AHHHHH!!!  

All day I kept shrieking with my students, with "I can't believe it's over!!!" and "I'm gonna miss you!!!" which would be followed by "We're gonna miss YOU, Miss!!!" which I find utterly adorable just because of the double "miss" (yes, I'm a nerd in all forms, including language). 

It was a wonderfully simple last week.  No stress - just hello, here's your test, this is grade, have a great summer!  So strange to spend SOOO much time with people, and then it's over so quickly.  And of course you want it to be over because, well, it's friggin exhausting...but because it's a professional relationship with a bunch of kids, I always feel this at the end of the year, and I'm beginning to understand a little more what I long for.  Closure. We try to say what we feel and do the proper goodbyes, but they're teenagers and I'm their teacher so it's AWKWARD and as we all know, teenagers aren't the greatest communicators (hahaha), so it leaves me wishing I could convey more of what's in my heart to these wonderful images of God who have so blessed my life these past 10 months (well, most of them). 

So to my lovely students, I will freaking miss you. 
This video made me cry thinking of the gift of this part of my identity that God has given me.