The same thing

Yesterday, I was in a classroom for the first time in 3 months.

I was in a classroom, and the kids were the same. They still giggled when I walked in the room, mostly because I still giggle when I walk in a classroom because, even after a year, I'm not sure of this authority that someone gave me.

Copernic was still the first to raise his hand, even though he wasn’t always ready with an answer. Severine still usually had the right answer although she wasn’t usually the first to raise her hand. Alain and Fidele still couldn’t sit together without whispering to each other and ignoring the verb conjugations I had written on the board. Felicitie still loved reading the exercises out loud to the class more than completing them. Suzane still  only gave me her attention when she felt I deserved to have her attention.

I was in the classroom for the first time in 3 months, and I realized what I had been missing for the past 3 months.