I've been home for two weeks now and it is hard to imagine that this is what it looked like outside my hotel only fourteen days ago. In fact, we were worried that we wouldn't get out of New Zealand on time because the road from Arthur's Pass to Christchurch was closed off and on all week as was the Christchurch airport. Luckily Bob, our bus driver, managed to get us to the airport in a safe and timely manner and after 30 hours of traveling I made it back home. I was very happy.



School has been in session for a week now and I am still working to catch up on everything I missed in the last six weeks as well as the daily preparation necessary for teaching a new class. I'm loving teaching the seniors thus far and thought I would share with you a beautiful thing they wrote this week.

In response to a question about student-teacher relationships one student had this to say:

"A good teacher can make her students laugh and cry, smile and sing. She must be a great commander, rallying her troops. She must be able to touch each and every one of her students emotionally, not just intellectually. But this necessitates a willingness to study and understand her students as individuals, and not as just so many numbers or words on a piece of paper."

What a worthy challenge.