End of year

It's the end of year here now. On April 1st, new teachers will arrive at school. This year, 7 teachers are leaving my school. That's a fair slice out of the 17 staff members at Azuma JHS. One teacher is going overseas so we had a work party last Wednesday night to say good bye, not only to him but to all the other teachers leaving too. The school secretary is another who is leaving, so we made the most of the night by drinking a few beers. I will miss them all.

Also had the Nursery School Graduation on Saturday morning. The kids are so cute! They each made their mum a bowl and presented it to them, one by one, towards the end of the ceremony. I don't think there was a dry-eyed mother in the room.

So even though I know who is leaving my JHS, I still don't know who is coming. All I know is that the average age of the 7 new staff members is around 25. A very young group - should be cool.