Yesterday was rough. I had to say a temporary goodbye to my wonderful, amazing, passionate, caring, continue to fill in with positive adjectives, co-teacher, Cindy. I just finished a reference letter for her as well. Monday will be completely different, but it will be a new beginning because I will have a new co-teacher, Ann.
Anyway, Cindy is truly an amazing woman. We have been sidekicks this year and there weren't too many times that one of us was walking down the halls without the other. Cindy loses practically everything, and I was always finding whatever she lost. We would always have these mini celebrations when she was the finder of something though. In our room, we laugh a lot. We laugh at a funny thing a student says, we laugh in our many conversations, and we laugh at ourselves. All of this laughter keeps us sane, as crazy as that sounds.
Cindy always called us her angels, and I'm sure it will be told all over Ohio as well! She says we were all hand-picked for this room and for each of those kids. I prayed over applications. I didn't even apply for this job. I'm the poster child for being hand-picked for this room. It's just astounding how God works. Cindy told me stories about her ebbing fear of not getting anyone for the position. She shared with me all the times of prayer she's spent over the kids and about this move.
I cried on Friday, we all cried on Friday. It's so hard to let Ohio have her, but at the same time, I know she will do great things, because working with her every day, I know she's not done teaching, and the field of education should not be ready for her to retire!
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