Summer Vacation at Last!

Vacations are seen as an antidote to work. They are medicine, a remedy for counteracting the effects of labor.... Vacations allow us to be away from the job, to change the patterns of our day, to alter our routine, to reconfigure our actions and habits, to rediscover ourselves. - AL GINI
When seeing all the teachers’ happy face before the school was about to close for summer vacation, I could tell how important it is for them to have the long expected vacation.

After more than four and half months’ non-stop teaching, teachers need the time
to get recharged, refreshed and revived for the next term to come. I couldn’t realize before I became a teacher, how stressful and tiresome it could be. While a lot of people envy teachers for their winter and summer holidays, I must say it’s very helpful and constructive for teachers. The break is definitely necessary for them to continue to stay in the job, to keep their passion and not to lose their patience with students.

Teaching gives teachers a sense of achievement while often times troubled students rack their brains for solutions. Another reason that I can’t wait for summer vacation to come is because I can finally travel to the places that I had planned to visit before my legs fail me. The only problem is finding companies. People other than teachers don’t feel like travelling in summer as the cost is high and the weather is hot.

Sad to say that all the goldies have their own travel plans this year. None of them can join me. My children can’t travel with me in summer, either. I was forced to drop my plan travelling to Europe as traveling alone is truly depressing. Still, I will spend two weeks in the States. My sister doesn’t come back to Taiwan this year, so I thought visiting her is not bad as I haven’t been to Seattle for almost four years. A week at my sister’s home in Seattle for a good getting-together, plus a week visiting a friend of mine there to see some small towns that I have never seen sounds quite fulfilling actually.

I guess I will still make my vacation an enjoyable one. I have more time to attending dance classes, practicing the drum and the piano, watching movies, listening to music, doing things with goldies when chances come, attending more T/Ms meetings and finally enjoying the quality time with my sister and friend in the States.

But for next summer, I promised myself no matter what I will make my plan travelling to East and South Europe come true.

Trini