Pageant, Anniversary, therapy, oh and school

Its been almost a month since I have been teaching at the bilingual school. I still love it, love my students and my co-workers. Today was parent- teacher meetings. It is always a pleasure for me to meet parents. They are the foundation for the formation of children. Unfortunately, like many teachers and those who work with children may have experienced, it is exactly the youth who need most help who do not have parents that show up to meetings. Parents may be living far away, separated, busy working or even deceased. In either case children show distress due to a sense of abandonment and often use school as the place to display their frustrations. Usually a child will not come straight out and verbalize this frustration but once you dig a little deeper and earn their trust they are willing to spill the beans.
     This month will be one of activities and less of education. The school has an annual anniversary pageant which I am helping coordinate. Amongst other activities that are taking place during the school's anniversary week, I have been teaching class, correcting final exams, discipling and helping the school with some psychological issues that have come up. There is more work than there is time for me to do it all. I've been sick for a week now and it is without doubt my overworked body that has not had time to recuperate.
    Hopefully, this month's hard work will pay off and all the activities at school will be a grand hit! For Father's day, which will be celebrated tomorrow, March 16th, my class decided that they would say "Happy Father's Day" in different languages as part of the celebration that is taking place here at school. One of the students in my class came up with the idea. I was so proud of her for thinking outside the box. Let's see how it turns out. Til next time. I'm always open for new ideas.