Saturday Morning..

Time is a tickin away! So strange to think that it’s pretty much four weeks left. Everyone is saying that over and over.. counting days or weeks or playing: this time next month.. and while I hear them say it.. or even sometimes say such things myself, I haven’t really processed that and what it means. 

Last night I was out with SJ and Tree and Tree turned to me and said: “So how do you feel when you think that you are about to take this huge plunge from everything familiar into a completely new life that you know absolutely nothing about?” …. um.. about that! I think at the moment I feel fine. I think I’ll just take it as it comes because no amount of trying to figure out what the New Life will be like, will actually help me be more prepared. I have been looking things up like crazy and reading up on German life and culture etc but when it comes down to it.. I just have to go for it.. and I think by the time I pack up my life here, go to Bali for my last Bali bliss vacation, fly all the way home and hang with family and friends in Canada for a month.. I think I’ll be good and psyched up. Sure some things will be difficult, some will be better, some will be worse.. I’ll miss this place.. but in the end.. new adventures are fun.

In icky news.. my brother is freaking out. He picked this huge fight with me yesterday morning. Time zones are not good for e-fights. I was pre coffee and he was early evening.. so one of us was at a definite advantage. Anyway HKN is in Canada now and apparently stirring up trouble.. misquoting me to my brother and his X and new girlfriend and who knows what mess is going on. So my brother, very irrationally launched into this massive attack on what a horrible person I am and how I am continually messing with his life.. blah blah blah. It’s not true and his main source of reference is stuff I may or may not have said 2 years ago. I have a feeling that our fight was really about something else going on in his life and I was just the punching bag. It wasn’t a good feeling and fighting 10,000 miles apart is hard because it’s not like I can run over there and we can discuss this over drinks or face to face. It’s all a bit ridiculous.. but it is just icky and makes me feel all queasy inside. Also makes me wonder why I was trusting HKN so much when he seems to just be making a big mess of things. I really should not trust people so easily.. 

I am finishing off a media unit with a group of my students and so for the past two days we watched Shattered Glass with Hayden Christensen (sp?). It works in terms of showing how easily we can be influenced, the power of the press etc etc. The kids were really into it and I was quite impressed with it… again. I think it’s a great film!

This week I also was given two new classes. I only have them for the last 4 weeks of school but it’s to do a Pre-IB program. So mid-May, all the Grade 10s turn into Pre-IB and we basically start the 2 year program early and try to harass them into working hard etc. I had heard that this group of students was collectively rather nightmarish but I actually think they’re pretty great kids. While they don’t make me want to stay and see them through, I have realized that I’ll encounter great kids wherever I go.. not just here in SEAsia.. 

And with that I think I’ll end for now…