Today was the last day of school .... it was uber uber sad.
Will write more when I can actually articulate the depth and breadth of the emotions we experienced saying goodbye to SO many wonderful people that we have met, who have inspired us, laughed, cried, danced together and, friends without whom, we could never have made this incredible journey in India!
I'll also upload a video of the flash mob leaving parents orchestrated for the end of year assembly at school (once I figure out how).
Two days before the end of school, the Grade 5 kids had a "ceremony" called the Bridge Walk, basically walking from Elementary School, across the bridge to Middle School. It's symbolic ok? Unfortunately they started 5 minutes early and some parents missed it, heads WILL roll!
A few happy snaps.....
Will write more when I can actually articulate the depth and breadth of the emotions we experienced saying goodbye to SO many wonderful people that we have met, who have inspired us, laughed, cried, danced together and, friends without whom, we could never have made this incredible journey in India!
I'll also upload a video of the flash mob leaving parents orchestrated for the end of year assembly at school (once I figure out how).
Two days before the end of school, the Grade 5 kids had a "ceremony" called the Bridge Walk, basically walking from Elementary School, across the bridge to Middle School. It's symbolic ok? Unfortunately they started 5 minutes early and some parents missed it, heads WILL roll!
A few happy snaps.....
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| the "Bridge" |
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| Xanthe & Paul waiting.... |
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| our Middle Schooler crossing the bridgeeeeeee |
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| friends looking for their kids |
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| friends and proud parents of twins |
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| with Uncle Paul THEN a few days later, the final assembly. I just don't have all the words yet... so I'm just gonna babble..... Assembly was an 11am kick off, there's nothing much to do after drop off so all our close friends hung out in the school cafe, some avoided the emotions by whacking the crap out of a tennis ball and some just stayed away, too distraught by the emotions to deal with it ... amongst us were friends moving to Singapore, England, back home to the states, Bangalore, and a few were being left behind .. one friend has lived here for 10 years and she's had to endure this every year, the loss of close friends, its agony ... I don't have the words for her either! Oh yeah we have one friend she's been in Egypt for the last few weeks .. she's in De Nile, totally in denial that our gang was about to busted up so unceremoniously, and we just can't get her out of the goddamn river! I looked at my clock at one point, it was only 9am!!!!! God it was like waiting for the electric chair, excruciating. We had coffee and laughs, someone ordered breakfast, people drifted in and last catch ups aplenty, there was hugging galore! Dean was there on his laptop, someone would burst into tears, Lynden came armed with a whole box of tissues which seat on the coffee table, and was attacked on a regular basis! Another time check, hell only 9 minutes had passed. I had a secret mission going on too so as our flash mob members arrived, I'd surreptitiously slip them an orange scarf they had ordered. Someone would sob quietly hoping no-one would notice, and they'rd be more hugs and others would join in the crying. They parade all the leaving kid past the parents, last year the line was as long as the gym, this year it was 2.5 times to length of the gym! |
Then as if the tears aren't flowing fast enough, they cue "we are the world" and flash up all the leaving kids photos, as the entire gym cheers for friends, favorites and of course theres laughs at some goofy photos too!
Then speeches, as more tissues are passed around between friends
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