1 post tagged “finality”
It's midnight and the bird clock in the kitchen calls twelve times. The picture indicates that it's the sound of a House Finch. I lay awkwardly on the couch by the front porch windows of an old house, one of the optimal positions for finding a working Wi-Fi connection. I have another 8 days of housesitting and during that time I'll have walked the dog many times, bused between here and my apartment another several, hot and dulled by the repetitive long trip across town. This place reminds me of my grandma's house in Ohio. It's probably the smell of dark wood, the creaking steps, carpets and little perfumed soaps that produces memories. I don't know if I'll get to see her before I move to Israel in less than two months. My schedule keeps getting more and more packed as time moves on. I'm trying to experience a variety of things before I go, which I'm doing well at accomplishing, but sometimes the schedules & the time constraints are maddening.
Friday was finally the last day of school for the kids. That means my Americorps position as I knew it, is over. I'm so close, but there's still hours left to finish & so I don't exactly feel the turning of a new era just yet. It was about time though, for this first year charter school to have a vacation. All of us are kind of burned out and ready to move on. This year was hard, yet rewarding. I'm having a hard time formulating what those advantages and disadvantages are at the moment, but over time, when my mind turns to reflect on the things that have transpired in the summer months, I will have a clearer picture.
This morning I ran into someone at the Dunn Bros who worked at the school periodically as a tech guy. We talked a little about our jobs, the busyness of life and nitpicked about education. It was good to interact with at least one co worker outside of the job, albeit an accidental interaction between two people who are primarily employed through separate companies. Life is full, and now it's getting late. Tomorrow I return to back to back obligations so I need to get everything in order....
