Today, will be my last normal discussion with my grade 8 class.

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Tomorrow, I will meet them again for my final examination.

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I am in caught between excited and sad, because I have learned to adjust teaching only five students for this class. I have learned to love them even more because of the jokes we’ve had together, because of the friendly atmosphere we’ve come to build through the past weeks.

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Today, we discussed nets of solids after we recall the different quadrilaterals.

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I am not yet ready to let go, although the Thais and the other Filipinos left Indonesia yesterday already.

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I am not yet ready to say goodbye after being attached to these active and smart students.

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Yet, this will always be part of a teacher’s story, the hellos and the good byes.

As teachers, as second parents, we must be ready to face the day that our children will grow up and leave the nest.

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I am sure to prepare myself for my last teaching tomorrow, and my the last “good bye, class” that I will utter.