June 7- Time has flown as we look back at it.  While we were in it, we were not so sure….  Well it is nearly done.  Only 5 days of school left at SAS.  We are finishing packing out of apartment and library.  Completing up the last minute things such as phone, banking, wechat, twitter accounts and all the rest that one has to do when one moves on to a new job.  We had our last library party yesterday with our staff and parent volunteers.  Our parent volunteers have been the best.  Their work in the library for the last many years provided us the opportunity to try many new things such as combining the HS and MS Fiction collections, “Generizing” the fiction collection, increasing our Chinese collection, and much more.

Below: The SAS Pudong Secondary Library Staff, Parent Volunteers, Students, and Friends – Thanks for a Great Last Library Bash!

For us, it has been a good, long run at SAS, but we are ready for a new chapter.  A Big Thank You! to SAS Pudong for supporting us for the last 11 years.  Both our children have graduated from SAS Pudong and moved back to the States for their education/jobs.  The support received from SAS provided us great opportunities to follow our educational passions in areas of Library Networking in Shanghai and beyond, working with MS, ES, and HS robotics both at school and through out China, and developing our professional sides so that we are ready for the next challenge.

Our Next Chapter is AISR.  We are AISR- Saudi Arabia bound.  Barbara will be Assistant Principal in the Elementary School.  Tim will be back in HS Science teaching IB Nature of Science courses and Robotics Courses.  We are looking forward to the new and different challenges.  Over the short summer ahead, we will do some retooling and updating of this blog space so we can better document our time ahead.  Hope in time that this site will become what it always should have been, a place where we place our education thoughts, dreams, successes, and of course failures, because no matter what the level, we all learn best when we have a chance to learn from our failures.

So Best Wishes to all,  BoyerBookends is Saudi Bound!