The battle is almost over.
Our course is finished and soon your studies at Leksands Gymnasium will be a memory, hopefully to be looked back on with fondness.
I wish you all every success in your life choices and hope you will get gain from the English studies you have done this last academic year.
I want to leave you with the words of the Desiderata- a poem written by max Erhmann in 1927
We have now come to our final lesson of the year. No teaching today just informal talks about grades for those who would like it.
I will be around from 8.30 a.m. onwards.
Ok, instead of feeling the last lesson is just a waste of time why not read and discuss the following article:
http://www.australiansabroad.com/sweden/youknow.html
Thank you for participating faithfully in the course.
Don't just look at the letter you get as a grade result- look at everything you have learnt and how your English has improved this year.
See it as a life skill in this globalized age where communication in English pervades many jobs and different walks of life.
Remember aslo the value of literature in the original language. Shakespeare's plays are an amazing mirror on our present-day society where so much is governed by a desire for power and money.
We can see that the struggle was the same over 400 years ago.
Finally I want to wish you every success in your continued studies/life choices...
There is a life after Leksand's Gymnasium!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As you finish off your time at the school please don't allow alcohol and other consciousness-changing substances spoil the experience of saying farewell to many of the friends who you will carry with you throughout life.
Take care!
