The Beginning of the End

Things are winding down. It’s crazy. We just held our last academy class for the 2014-2015 school year. I am coming up on the end of my first year of teaching. How can this be? I have really enjoyed getting to know all of my students, learning about a new and very diverse culture, and making music with over 120 awesome people. We have one regular class meeting left for each group, then it is dress rehearsal, concert, awards ceremony, party, and saying goodbye. There is still so much to do between now and then it is crazy!

Dan’s parents will be joining us tomorrow night for a week. They will get the chance to see the very end of the school year, plus they will help move things around and do recording stuff for the concert. We have been very blessed to have both Claire and Dan’s families be around during concert time. Claire’s family was around for our December concert and were a great help. Dan’s parents will be just as helpful I am sure. I feel like I have learned a lot about both of their families this year.    

I am really not looking forward to Saturday when we won’t have students showing up for academy class and open practice time. It will all become too real that we are closing down the school for the summer and preparing to leave the country. I’m sure we will have many students stopping by to hang out and help us with cleaning and packing. I can’t get over just how much our students come out to help us move, set up, and tear down throughout the entire year. They are all rock stars in my book!

Anyways, this is just a short blog to prepare you for the craziness of my week. I think the next ten days are going to be somewhat of a marathon until Claire and Dan head back to the U.S. and Eric and I head to Suriname!