End of the Semester

There is always a mixture of feelings at the end of each semester...sadness when you are losing students who have made you, as a teacher, enjoy the profession that you have chosen and gladness when you are gaining new faces that you have never seen or talked with in hopes that they will teach you while you are teaching them. The real negative side of changing semesters is the "paperwork" that has to be completed in a matter of a couple of days in order to start the new classes. It gets done but at the time when you are in the middle of the process you wonder if you will have enough time to get everything changed over. Then first half of the school year has flown by and I imagine that the second half will go equally as fast. Having a child who is also a student also makes the year go by even faster. Where does the time go?