Please tell me what there is to complain about

So here I am, separated by months from my last blog post, but back on the same continent.

Summer back in the USA was excellent. I loved spending time with my friends, eating chipotle, hugging my family members, and driving around the expanse that is the American Midwest. I discovered new music, consumed way too many calories, packed some heavy suitcases full of American goods, and worked out at the YMCA pretty regularly. It was a great time. And by the end of it, I was ready to come back. It's scary to come back because it's never the same. I'm without some of the single ladies now (Jenn and Becky, we miss you!), and I'm without my SoKo bestie Kim.

However!
I'm so so so excited for the upcoming school year. I've run into a couple kiddos at school and it's just. so. exciting. I think it's odd how attached I and my coworkers get to our students, until I think about how much of my time I spend with them. I'm not telling them any secrets, but my especially my HS students and I start to really know each other - reading moods, patterns, triggers, and much more from each other. There's obviously separation, as teacher and student, but the lines start to get blurred when you feel so invested in their well being and future. Most of my students will go to college in the states, so I sometimes start to feel like it's my job to make sure they're going to succeed socially in my home country. They're all such great people and I'm sad to see them go when they graduate. Every time (well, I guess both times.... cause I've only graduated two classes!) it sucks to see them go.
I can't wait for this year to start - we have some big plans in the basement (music department) and I'm really looking forward to what the kiddos will get out of it all. I try to remember how old the kiddos were when I arrived and they've changed so much!

Anyway. Changes. They happen.
I've got such good vibes about the new people who've joined our school.
I picked out some kick-ass music for my students.
I have so much to do.
and I'm so glad to be doing it! :)