To state the obvious, I have been incredibly busy. Katimavik purposefully makes December the busiest month for us so we spend little time being sad about being away from home. To be honest though, we are all still sad and now we're stressed to the max as well. I guess Katimavik means well though!
This past week has been very hard for me. I've loved my job at Second Chance so much and have made some really good connections with most of my students there. I've been absolutely dreading to face my last day in that classroom, but it came and went, and I'm still in shock.
My last day was really fun. We watched a really lame National Lampoon's movie, then had a huge Christmas "dinner" (it was actually lunchtime) and then they all got to open their presents given to them by the community. It was so nice to see them so happy, that's probably my favourite part of Christmas... seeing people open their presents. I gave them all the letters I wrote and I think they all appreciated them. They all gave me a really sweet card, some personal letters, and a Port Colborne High School sweater! I looove it. It's huge, but so comfy to sleep in.
It's hard having to say goodbye so quickly to people you feel you've made friendships with. I almost feel like I haven't done enough yet, like I need some sort of closure to be OK with moving on. But I know this is also part of Katimavik, learning how to say goodbye, and I hope I'll be able to keep in touch with some of my students and possibly see them in the future.
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