Postcard from Prague: Summer Break

Am I home?

Kinda. Not quite. Maybe. Ish?

Please forgive the severe lack of posts and updates these past 4 months. CISP has been great but busy,  and adjusting to life takes a bit of time and a lot of energy. The semester seemed to fly by, especially once we returned from spring break at the beginning of April. The last couple weeks continued to be non-stop: I celebrated my birthday, went on two field trips, took a 3:30am bus to Berlin for a 10-minute meeting, registered with the Czech police, and celebrated the end of school and graduation all in a 12-day period. Our last day of school was this past week - the 8th - and graduation was the 9th. And once all the chaos wrapped up, rather than enjoy a very relaxing beginning-of-summer, I packed up my things, said some hard goodbyes, and flew back to Atlanta.

After an exciting 25 hours awake, featuring a 4 hour-delayed flight and a 45 minute struggle at baggage claim, I enjoyed a whopping 34 hours at home before flying to Chicago for ten days for a TeachBeyond conference/training.

So, while I sit in the Chicago O'Hare Starbucks and wait for my pickup, I finally have a minute to catch my breath while fighting off jet-lag and general travel exhaustion (thank God for caffeine.)

I feel like now would be a good moment to share some highlights of the semester, but that's difficult when almost everything was a highlight. Lots of cool field trips, crazy but wonderful kiddos, some awesome new friends and "family" (I managed to acquire a handful of little sisters this semester.) I'm very grateful that this semester was even better than I had hoped, and I'm very excited to head back at the end of summer for the new school year. But it's equally exciting to be Stateside these next six-ish weeks and able to spend time catching up on things I've missed and seeing familiar faces.

But all this flying makes me wish for teleportation...