End of Year

Would you believe that Year 1 of 2 is nearly over? A whole month before Beth and Isaac finish school Dad finishes first!

With our leavers having finished last week (although still departing!) things are a lot quieter round here. At lunchtime there are just three tables occupied rather than the normal seven.

There are a few things to help us pass the time, between packing up our studies into boxes and moving into the basement so that a language school can take occupation next week. On Monday and Tuesday we did 'Community Tasks' - a variety of jobs helping to maintain the college and grounds, ranging from hedge trimming to sorting out the library - which I was assigned to - the only time that it's acceptable to make lots of noise in the library. Unused books were removed, creating space for new acquisitions - it's amazing how satisfying it is just moving books from one shelf to another. However, I'm not sure how easy it was for the visiting student who chose that day to write his assignment on 1 Corinthians. He took out most of the books on that topic, whilst we merrily rearranged and moved the shelf leaving no gap for him to return his books into!

Tuesday lunchtime brought possibly the last game of croquet of the season, and Wednesday the final Common Room meeting of the year (meeting of the student body) where we reviewed the year and looked forward to the things we need to do early next term to welcome the new students.

Thursday will have a final meeting with the staff, a session on our summer placements, and an All Age service to close the term. Which my team is leading.

It's going to be busy tomorrow. And then there's little let up, with a weekend trip to Ferndown and a single day off on Monday before I start tagging along behind a real vicar for a month.