Life has been very busy lately. Since Christmas, which was very refreshing & relaxing, it has been pretty much a non-stop blur of activity - teaching, planning for lessons, English Olympiada, teaching outside of school, and also preparing for the International Student Leadership Institute (I.S.L.I.) which will be in Germany in March (for which I'm also the European director). Some things have gone smoothly, and others not so....
On top of all this, there is the normal life which I live outside of school. I guess teachers don't talk a lot about their private lives. I let out some snippets from time to time, and am quite happy to be open about sharing what's happening in my life, but all too often, time & the school curriculum do not permit it. (In case you were wondering...I have a wonderful wife, a wonderful marriage, but there are family concerns elsewhere...as well as friends who are seriously ill too...)
We teachers are not robots, though I confess, the behaviour of one or two does concern me at times ;-) Life affects us...and so do changes at school.
Since I began over 9 years ago, I have seen a few colleagues leave from the English Dept... Miss Eichlerova (who became Sykorova), Miss Kohoutkova, Mrs Greplova, Mrs Cesalova...and the first day back at school, we discovered that Mrs Tihelkova had given her notice in... One of the 'pillars' of the English section, after over 20 years of teaching at SGO, is going to finish at the end of March...
The news is still fresh. All of her students now know. I'm not at liberty to say why she is going. That would be for you to ask her. But let's just say that I'm not happy about the circumstances surrounding it ;-)
Change is an unavoidable part of life. Some people don't like it, they resist it, even forcefully...I think the most important thing is how to respond to it, for change must surely come... Some things will not be the same - it might be better, it might be worse...it's all a question of how we face it.
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