This is a poignant juncture in my life. For very nearly 30 months now I have poured my life into this crazy project of building a new school from the ground up (in China!!); and for the past 22 months I have been teaching here. It has been strange and wonderful and - mostly - a lot of fun. But it has also been at times frustrating, and overall profoundly exhausting. I haven't completely stopped working at any time in that 30 months, even during supposed vacations; and during term time, I've been typically working 80-100 hours a week.
I am sad to be leaving - but I really need A REST now.
Here are a couple of fripperies I just shared with my students and colleagues, two things that always come to my mind when I think of farewells:
Exquisite Canadian acapella group The Wailin' Jennys singing the traditional Scots/Irish folk song The Parting Glass....
And what the dolphins said when they abandoned Earth at the beginning of the Hitch-Hikers' Guide To The Galaxy saga....
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