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With summer almost over, I've now finished another four classes. Two of them I won't see again, one starts again next week, and the last one is currently studying with me. This is my currently studying class. It's weird, even after working for my company for more than a year now, this was the first class I ever taught from one course to the next. These kids are an insanely clever, if rambunctious, bunch of kids.  This is one of my summer classes. It's weird that I wasn't very excited to teach them in the beginning, but our relationship grew much stronger after the midway point of the course and, in the end, I was sad to see them go. Another very smart class. That kid in the blue shirt had sharp wit and a good sense of humor. In other news, I've started running again! I've been a bit zealous lately, and as a result, I'm now signed up for not one, but two races! At the end of August, I'll run in Da Nang, and at the end of this year, just...

You were absolutely right, man. What we have now, it is a family, and it's one that I will be sad to lose. I remember the time, almost one year ago, when I was the only teacher at our center along with two TAs. After class one day, I looked at our empty TSC. There were no toys or papers strewn across the table, no names on the lockers, or hardly any books on the shelves. I thought to myself, "I wonder what it will be like when this place isn't so quiet anymore, when the lights will be turned on and the room will be filled with the buzz of activity. I could never have imagined what I would be given. Yes, there have been ups and downs, but the experience I have had with all of you is unlike any other that I have ever had. It is with a heavy heart that I admit our joy is only temporary. Like you, I want this family, too, but our great misfortune is that we were destined to lose each other right from the beginning; it is the nature of our industry. The clock started counting...