Today I completed the final session of the digital audio module I’ve been teaching up at the School of Education of the University of the West Indies, and these past few days I’ve been joking with my friends about whether my students would shower me with farewell presents and move me to tears with their parting words (this from reading To Sir, With Love at an impressionable age).

Little did I know they actually would. Today, the members of Digital Audio (Group Two) presented me with a very cool USB flash drive and Aletia sang “Morena Osha”, and then they snuck off after the lunch hour to put together a special farewell audio presentation (which I guess means that, at the very least, I’ve taught them how to use Audacity).

Teaching these classes has been an extremely rewarding experience, and for it to have been capped by these lovely gestures has made it all the more special. I won’t miss having to get up earlier than my body thinks is reasonable on a Thursday to make it up to St. Augustine for 9am, nor the frostbite-inducing temperatures in the computer lab, and I wish I’d been able to devote more time to writing about the experience on the class blog. But I will miss chewing the fat at lunch time over doubles and sharing with this splendid group of people (who have filled me with an immense respect for the profession of teaching) my passion for audio, and having the opportunity to learn from them as well.

Thank you all.