I remember those last few weeks before the end of the school year when no one really wanted to be inside studying. The weather was too nice to be closed up in a classroom and we had been studying for a long, long time. We are in those days now. There is a little difference in that our classes are a lot more interesting than those of the government school and the materials are certainly better, but we have been studying for a long, long time. The kids are looking forward to finishing up so they can start their summer of swimming, reading whatever they want, playing with the neighbor kids, and regularly complaining of boredom. The upside to our finish date is that we will be finishing a couple of weeks ahead of the government school kids. We tried to take off the same number of days as they, but they took off so many that we just could not keep up. We started earlier than they, too. In one sense it will not be so good because the kids will be off for quite awhile with only themselves for companions until the other kids get home in the evening.
