Adieu: Junio de 2008

Adieu: June 2008

These are the last weeks of my first year. Baring aside the occasional water mane break, floods and outbreak of lice, it has been a memorable year. In the wake of the Saint Jordi Festival, the International Food Fair, the junior-senior dinner, the annual drive, the upcoming science fair, and our two graduations, I am moved by the sense of the BFIS community and the many ways it is felt and expressed here. But like all things in life, there is a time for saying good-bye. As is the natural rhythm of international schools, there exists the element of change and turnover. And so, to the students and families who will be leaving us for home, I wish you well and may the experience of BFIS be an indelible one. To the graduating seniors, years worth of discoveries, struggles and applying the knowledge you have been storing up for the next phase of life. For the Board members who have served our community in the most critical and supportive of ways, goodbye. Your work stays with us. To the teachers, those who leave an imprint on the lives of students, by virtue of their passion, their connectedness, their mastery of their subject, and ultimately their humanity, we also say goodbye; Michael Balog, Lana Marion, Kathy Manu, Bryan Scholes, Lisa Demers, Jake Brown, Angelene Hanna, and Abigail Chipman, thank you. And a final farewell, to another one of our leaders, who has been a rock of stability: diligent, hard working, and consistently courageous in being principled, fair and consistent. We will all miss you Daniel McKee.

So ends another year. And already, planning the next one.