I'm typing this while sitting in my empty classroom

I'm starting to have the "end-of-the-school-year blues" even though we've still got two more Sundays for this year. But my co-teacher, Tamara, is leaving for Israel -- she's going to be moving to Jerusalem to work on the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. I'm chatting with Ben, who was one of my students from last year. It turns out that I'm the only teacher who will be coming back for next year. Which is a bit scary, but, oh well.

(I'm now back home, no longer at Hebrew School.)

Annessia was being something of a jerk today, which was annoying, but, after school, she made me an apology picture, which was incredibly sweet. And we played some after school. I love her a lot, and will miss her over the summer.

Ben was talking about how it's weird and a little scary that I'm the only teacher coming back, but I mentioned that Anna, who's been a substitute teacher a few times, is going to be teaching next year, which made him feel better. He said that he hoped that Anna would be teaching his grade, and I told him he should go tell the education committee that -- since they were meeting right at that time in the next room, and it was an open meeting to which the entire community was welcome, and he was part of the community. He thought that was a good point, but I suspect he was just going to tell them after the meeting was over. Which would work just as well, I suppose.

I also attempted to get Ben addicted to Firefly, since I had the DVDs and my laptop with me. Just by showing him the opening bit of "The Message" where Jayne gets a nifty hat from his mother. He liked it.