losing and letting go

i am in deep sh*t right now. i lost my school ID. damn. i won't be able to enter the school library without it and i really need to go there to do some research for my paper. aaarrggghh!!! of all the times to lose it, why now??? of course, the solution for this would be to replace it. but it still sucks coz it's a waste of time and money. yeah. stupid me.

i got a really sad news yesterday. one of my Korean students will be going back to her country next week and might not come back here again. it's really sad coz i'm going to miss her terribly. just writing about it makes me teary-eyed (sob!). i'm going to miss her morning greetings and hugs whenever i arrive. even though she has been my student for a short time only, i know that things will never be the same again when she's gone. this is one of the sad things about being a teacher. being left by your students. and you can't stop them from leaving coz they have to go coz your time with them is through. when i first started teaching, i told myself not to be too attached with my students so i won't feel very sad once they leave. but it's really hard not to be attached coz i see them every day. we do a lot of things together. we play, sing, dance, eat, run, wrestle, talk, laugh, and a whole lot of other things. when they cry, they run to me for comfort. when they are happy, they share their happiness with me. even though my students are still very young, i genuinely feel their love and respect for me. and i genuinely love and respect them as well. so if they have to go, i'll let them go. but i know that they will stay with me forever in my heart.