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Goodbye.

Today was my last official day as Mt Barker High's Pastoral Care Worker for 2018.  When I walked through those doors for the first time in July 2015, I was just 19 and had no idea what I was doing, heck I had never even been to school. I remember that underneath the excitement, lay an anxiety of "What the hecken sneck was I doing?"  There were so many doubts in my mind. But for some reason School's Ministry Group had hired me and there I was.  Honestly, there will never be a time in my life where these years spent at Mt Barker will be regretted. Between the countless slices of toast, numerous coffee runs, hours sharing in someone's pain, sleepless nights on camps and the good ole cheeky banter, I have loved this place and will miss it. Yet honestly, the journey of Pastoral Care has been one with it's share of pain or failure. Days where my age or life experience became an excuse, days where students where forgotten, days of compassion fatigue, da

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