Goodbye!

I've been planning to write my farewell post at your graduation time, but since quite a few of you have written your goodbyes on your blogs now, I will follow suit.
I would like to let you see how this feels from the point of view of a teacher. Perhaps it is not very real for you yet, but most of you will be going through this sooner or later (just another aspect of being a teacher still there for you to discover). In short: it's tough. Year by year you form a certain bond with a bunch of interesting and unique individuals, who you see develop, and then a time comes when you need to let them go. You want them to go, because that means you've done your job. Still, it's not easy. One would have thought that after so many years a teacher would be used to this. Well, you will see :)


Best of luck for whatever you're up to guys. It's been great working with you.