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May 28, 2002
Almost there
I knew that the year was ending soon, but It wasn't until last week, that I suddenly realized how close it is. School's out in only 2 and a half weeks! Woah! I will see a few on my classes only 1 more time. Wow! How did that happen? I was just getting into the swing of things. It's a bittersweet feeling. I'm looking forward to getting back to the states for the summer, but I really like teaching most of these kids too. The seniors are already gone - they graduate about a month before school's ends for the rest of the students.
I finally got an airplane ticket back to the states for the summer too. That's good. For a while I didn't know if I would be able to get one. I went to a travel agent a few weeks ago. I figured I had about 6 weeks until I had to leave, and I didn't need to leave on any specific day, so it wouldn't be a problem getting a ticket. Wrong. When I asked for a ticket, the travel agent laughed at me! "You want to go when? hahaha Ok, we can look. hahaha" So they put me on several waiting lists, but it didn't look good. So I was complaining to one of my classes that next day when and a student said, "My mom has a friend in a travel agency, she can get you a ticket." "Sure. I said. There aren't any left, but she can look." Sure enough, next day, that student found me, "OK, Mr. Ericsson, I have a ticket for you. We just need to go to the travel agent to pay for it." Dang. It's all about who you know.
Posted by neal on May 28, 2002 07:48 AM