A school of 76 students and staff of 16, it does make a whole lot of difference when there are 20 students and 5 teachers out of school. The school seems so much quieter and so much more smaller. The 8th graders went on their school trip to Tokyo for 5 days 4 nights. They're visiting a sister school in Guma. They'll also be skiing and going to Disneyland. Hope they're having a great time ^_^

Had a farewell party for Cathy. She's decided to leave Yamae and chase her other dreams. Sad to see her leave, but with this job goodbyes and farewells are inevitable. Just have to go with the flow. So, will I be saying my goodbyes in 27weeks time? I'm still unsure. The answer is still out there...Follow my heart, do what ever makes me happy, choose the path that has no regrets...which road is that? I feel like I'm in that Robert Frost poem again...

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

It's another cold day.