Summer is coming, Summer is here!

We are wrapping up the school year in Kuwait now, as Chris has already finished for the summer holiday and I am well on my way to it. I have just one more week of administrative days to finish report cards, schedule class timetables, and prepare my classroom for the dusty summer.

Countdown:

Chris leaves in 3 days

School ends in 6 days

I leave in 14 days

We're excited to get some time resting and relaxing in the States this year, with no major excursions planned! Knowing my husband and is sense of adventure, we'll see if that stays the same...

While we always look forward to the summer, it can also a difficult time of transition. Yes, there is peace and rest and our families to look forward to (and no students!), but we know that things won't be quite the same as we left them in the States last summer, and they won't be quite the same here when we get back in the fall.

The more we stay in Kuwait, the more our lives become enriched by people living and passing through here. It's an amazing thing to get to know and love people from all over the world, but it's a sad thing to see them go, too. So, what should we do? Become calloused and never make meaningful relationships again? Of course not. It hurts because its good, which is something I read over at the The Culture Blend this week. If you are a "stayer" or you know one, pass it along.

It's a strange season of anticipation and dread, of excitement and detesting,of joy and sorrow - all in one. But it's good. So good, in fact, that we are in our 6th cycle of it and coming back for more.