I don't think I left enough time to finish everything that I wanted to - for example I spent the first part of our school's Recognition Day (like prizegiving) celebraktions in my class, packing up and filing and deleting browsing history etc.
I have yet to do the gift shopping that I need to, and feel like I didn't say goodbye to school properly. My Grade 10's are wonderful souls who dedicated a song to me and KC, and though their band practise has been something of an issue for me, they were really good! Naturally I sheened a bit, and may even have dropped one solitary little tear. Haha what a lie...at one stage during the concert me, Jennie and KC were blubbing in the corner like crazies.
We had a staff celebration at the pool when all the kiddies left, and it was a bit reminiscent of leaving Cambridge, with the difference being that I may never see most of these people again. That always scares me - that you can see someone every day for such a long time, and develop a rapport with them, and know their lives, and share in each other's every day moments, and then in the passing of an hour, its all over. Its obviously true of all big transitions, finishing high school, finishing university, moving to a different town, changing jobs etc, but the losing people aspect is quite jarring for me. And I'm terrible at keeping in contact with people too.
There are 20 days between the date of finishing school and my flight home, and KC and I resolved a while ago that we would do a monster holiday trip to everywhere that we hadn't yet seen. Naturally this ideal has had to be tailored a bit, since we can't see absolutely everything, 20 days isn't all that long, and there are a host of places that we felt we simply have to go back to.
So tomorrow we set off back to Kanchanaburi - this time without buses of schoolkids, and only for a day, with the sole purpose of climbing up all seven levels of the Erawan waterfalls. I have decided that since these are a spectacular example, they will be the last waterfalls I climb, since I always manage to stop breathing on the way up.
After Kanchanaburi we go to Cambodia, with no more planning than a few names of places to see, and Ben's borrowed Lonely Planet. Then south to Phi-Phi, then Tonsai and Raleigh, then down to Koh Tao again. I'm going to do my diving course down there, and I am so freaking excited!
And I think that will be our last stop before heading back to Bangkok, or we'll head back to the other side of the coast to Phuket to say goodbye to Kimmie.
According to the plan, we should arrive here with three days to pack up and settle everything, but as I said it's a very loose plan and very open to suggestion. This is how KC and I travel best, sans plan.
And then it will be done, and I'll be on my way home.
I finally took some pictures of my school and my classroom so everyone can see where I've been for such a long time. There will be more on my facebook page.
Love xx
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| Teachers in the pool |
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| The empty building that gets used for advertising... |
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| My lab, and my skeleton! |
