Say Goodbye

These last two weeks have been when all the schools hold their graduations. Our Junior High graduation was last week, and I attended my own school's on Wednesday. It was definitely hard to see all the little kids that I've been spending time with crying their little hearts out. When the sixth graders leave for their new Junior High school, many of them are leaving as heroes, with a wake of sad little third and fourth graders and good friends in the fifth grade who still have a year left until they follow.

It's also time for us teachers to start saying goodbye. We've started the rigorous process of packing up, figuring what to leave and what to keep. Last notes and letters, goodbyes to friends we've known and worked with for the past year, to the students who we have taught and who have taught us, and to each other - we teachers have worked and taught and relaxed with one another every day for the last 10 months, learning with each other as we have served the Lord over here. God has brought us through many experiences that we will come away from changed, with new eyes for the work that we are called to as Christians. I've been memorizing a passage in Philippians 2, and verse two gives me a new realization of how important it is in work like this to have a likemindedness and the same love with your fellow labourers.

We have only one month left over here, and our schedule is crammed with summer camps. We will be getting two new American teachers to help us, and there will be several different locations for these camps in Taiwan. In the next few weeks I will be moved with some of the other teachers to Nantou which is in middle Taiwan for a camp in the last week of July, then up to Taipei for several days before I fly out back to the states. Please pray for safety while we travel and that there wouldn't be any difficult complications with the camps.