countdown

I have a bittersweet countdown on at the moment. 8 days of school left until the end of my practicum block.

Sweet: Summer, camp, freedom, lack of alarm clock, paddling, time, relaxing, reading.
Also sweet: Done with cheating in gym games, done with loud children (oh, wait.. done with these ones, anyway), done with tattling, with chasing after kids to hand in their work, with attitude (until September), with lesson planning, etc.

Bitter: Done at Holy Cross. Everything that goes with that. Toni. Kelly, Anne, Holly, Myra, etc. The mini-Klusies. Being silly in gym classes, love and hugs, little children in uniforms. Not seeing them next year, how they grow, etc.
Also bitter: What am I getting myself in to with camp, with last year how it was?

I couldn't have imagined a better practicum experience, so it's going to be really hard to say goodbye!

Camp folk head out on Monday, walking across the ice. By the time I'm done school, it should have started to break up, which means that I will likely be in a holding pattern for a week or more because I won't be able to get across to the island. I'll be impatient to get out there and get going, but it'll be nice to have some down time instead of a 48-hour turn-around from school.