Fini

It was a terrific trip; so good, in fact, that it's really doing a number on my decision to turn it over to others from now on. Mrs. Weatherholt, Mrs. Dunk and I have already had one brainstorming session about how to improve the experience in future years. We welcome your ideas and feedback; hopefully at some point in the next few weeks you'll receive a survey that we hope you'll take the time to fill out. But you aren't tied to that -- kids and adults alike are welcome to email comments and suggestions.

Thanks to you guardians for funding the trip and trusting your kids to our care. And thanks to each and every one of you kids who brought such thoughtful questions (edible berries aside...), entertaining personalities, and good behavior. An ancient Sumerian (cuneiform!) proverb says, "Discomfort -- it is an expedition." That's a truth with which I wholeheartedly agree; I don't look forward to traveling and do so only by overriding my profound reluctance. But you thirty-seven kids were such a pleasure to be around that in retrospect even the discomfort of trying to sleep on a bus is only a fading memory. You kids made the trip what it was. Thank you.




















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