waltz

due to my perfectly healthy obsession with tcm, i finally saw goodbye mr. chips tonight. it's about a sweet teacher (played by doe-eyed robert donat) at a boarding school who incidentally falls in love (with the daring greer garson), loses his love, and becomes a revered figure amongst his mischievous ever-changing supply of students through the victorian years and up to the first world war. a charming movie that made me literally laugh and cry. the kind of thing that makes you think of the world and how precious life is. i'll never look at childhood the same way. no wonder they call it a classic.