The (final) countdown

It's been a while since I've blogged and I could say things have been hectic (they have) but they are only going to get worse (in a good way) over the next few weeks as we count down the time left in London.

1 week til my Chinese lessons start
3 weeks left til the students leave school
3.5 til I finish teaching in London for good
5 weeks til we have to move out of our London flat
2 months til Kieran's job ends, we leave London and start the trip home
6 months til we hit Melbourne

I know it's going to fly by. These last couple of months in London. I have a list as long as my arm of things I want to do but never got around to in the past 7 years & that doesn't even start to include catching up with everyone and doing the farewells!! Let the sayonara parties begin.

I'm torn between wanting to tell my Year 10s this week that I'm leaving (it's their last lesson) and not really wanting the other kids to know I'm going until the last minute. If I tell Year 10s the others will know pretty quick- word travels fast! It will be very hard to say good bye to my form in particular (year 8s) as I've grown far too maternally fond of them all. Some of them will take it hard (mostly because they think they are moving into the brand new computer rooms in the new building with me next year) but also because we have a fairly high turn over of staff & I think our boys feel a sense of abandonment when the teachers who it seems have been around forever leave too. What to do, what to do. If I don't tell them soon though, one of the staff will! And my jobs have been advertised so it's only a matter of time before a clever clogs puts 2 & 2 together...