Hello, Goodbye

School started up early this morning for it's 61st year.
It was a day of ceremonies with long winded introductions, deep bows, bored kids and mulitple parental cameras taking it all in. The kids looked out of place in their new classrooms. Much too mall to be carrying around their new classrom titles.

Last week we went in for the day to say hello to the new teachers starting at the school and goodbye to the ones leaving (teachers change school's every 5 years). I met my new partner teacher and she seems very nice. She's young, comes from a very rich family, has traveled a lot and is now working her first full time job. The principal told her just to follow me and do what I say so I'm hopeful it will be a good working together.