So it’s been officially a week since graduation.

I’ve been teaching for several years now, but I had no idea how much closer I’d grow to my class after looping with them for the last two years. I mean like, I knew I was going to know them better, but it’s weird to think that I’m never going to enter that classroom and see each of those kids again. I find myself doing things that I want to share with them (like the recent renovations to my castle on our online realm) and realizing … I’ll never have a chance to.

This is the burden of being a teacher I guess. You make a family in your room, and then have to say goodbye to the comfortable home you’ve built throughout the year. Rinse and repeat.

I wonder if it’ll get easier as the years go by. I’m looping again in the next couple of years. This’ll be the longest haul that I’ve taken with students yet. Two full years as a multiple-subjects, self-contained classroom. A teacher can really change students’ lives with an investment like that. It’s bittersweet to think of how they’ll change my life as well.