Ondine has a new short bob haircut, and also writes about one of her 17-year-old students is bravely dealing with his dad being admitted into ICU.
Excerpt:
I received a message from a student of mine last night, that his father just collapsed and was taken away in an ambulance. His father's in intensive care right now.
How does a 17 year old deal with that? To make it worse, he's the only child and has to, in his own words, "remain strong for my mother". It's a heavy burden for a 17 year old to carry and I can only imagine the amount of fear he feels and is trying at the same time to hide.
I chanced upon his blog a while back and he talked about how much he didn't want to cry but felt, one night, that no matter how much he tried to, he just couldn't help it. His greatest fear then was that his mother might have felt that she had to be strong for him and couldn't show how worried she was and all he wanted was to be strong for her so that she could depend on him.