The coming and going

Today I learned that one of my students Grandfather died. She will be traveling to Mexico with her family for his funeral and will be gone from school for a month or more. I'm glad that she will have this time to be with her family and celebrate her Grandfather's life. I think that is very important.


The difficult thing is that she will be gone. The class will be missing their dear friend, and she will be missing out on valuable learning time. In my classes at Westminster, I read stories of students leaving. The coming and going, the traveling and staying. 


But living it now is more difficult than I imagined. 
I will miss her and hope she returns back sooner than later.