Last year, just after the COVID pandemic exploded, I wrote about our 15th anniversary. I expressed my hope that we would soon return to normal and that we would all be careful for a while.

At Route 66 we want to thank our staff and students who have adapted to the new normal, apparently effortlessly, coping brilliantly with online learning and the return to the classroom (with masks), timetable changes, mandatory rest periods, smaller class sizes, etc. Nothing has been too tough or too complicated.

However, we found out that everything would get harder. A year is a long time and, although it seems to have flown by, we are all starting to tire.