The next afternoon two of the children showed up at my hotel to give me some papers I had left behind in taxi.
"I had to work through a lot of things, and more mentally as well because I always thought that during those months that I was away, everyone was working and everyone was training and everyone was playing so it kind of felt like I was left behind a little bit, " she said.
When I left school, I rather left Paralympics and disability sport behind - except for an ill-fated attempt at getting a bunch of lads to play blind-folded football on a beach in Greece during a summer holiday.
Switching roles from BBC Southern Africa correspondent to cover Asia, I found myself longing for the open spaces of the continent I'd left behind.
Earlier this month I announced the first 11 states to get a waiver from No Child Left Behind, and I hope that we are going to be adding more states soon.
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While I would recommend revisions to No Child Left Behind legislation that would encourage the benefits of performance pay, increase support for struggling schools and motivate high performance in addition to ensuring baseline requirements, I am convinced that the firm accountability measures that No Child Left Behind introduced must be preserved.
So I took advice from anyone who sounded smart to me, applied what I liked and left the rest behind.
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"I take Mr Cameron's letter - after his decision not to join the treaty - as a sign that he doesn't want to get left behind and I'm delighted by that, because we need the British in Europe... perhaps not always!"
We did get my grandmother's silver and our wedding silver out, but I'm saddened to have left behind my grandmother's dresser, china cabinet and corner hutch.
There was a point well after I arrived in Puerto Rico where I felt like I had finally left the United States behind and arrived in the Caribbean.
No phone, no address book, no music: It was as though I'd left the modern world behind at Sunan airport and stepped back in time to a seemingly prehistoric analog era.
My friends even cleaned my apartment for me while I was in the hospital giving birth to my baby, cleaning up the lead dust workmen had left behind so it was ready for me when I got home with my healthy baby boy.
Kennedy and I are committed to reauthorizing No Child Left Behind in the next year, and we are already making good progress toward that goal.
The frackers and their investors will have made their money and long gone leaving you and I to deal with the fracking mess left behind.
As I wrote last week upon my return to the Office of Management and Budget, the fiscal and economic situation we face today is very different than the projected surpluses we left behind the last time I served as OMB Director in the 1990's.
And that was, I think, the biggest problem with No Child Left Behind.
This is why, in my State of the Union address this year, I said that Congress should reform the No Child Left Behind law based on the principles that have guided Race to the Top.
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"I just made a simple curl cut and left two guys behind me, and Brandon got off a heck of a pass, " he said.
And to all of those who are oppressed and abused and left out and left behind, they are saying: I am standing with you.
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There's 18 holes left and some great players just behind us but I've got to continue to focus and play good golf.
No Child Left Behind has gotten us to a place where I can tell you where the low-performing schools are and how the African-American and Hispanic kids do in reading and math on that campus.
Nine years ago, I created this company to serve members of communities in danger of being left behind by the traditional banking system.
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Two decades later, I am convinced we've left the hair-shirt brand of vegetarian gastronomy behind.
"I accept money is tight within the NHS, but we can't be left behind by the rest of the world in developing what we are doing in surgery and other aspects of health care, " said Mr Bhabra.
I'm very concerned that a lot of our citizens in this country are being left behind.
Personally, I think the investing world would be a safer place if Gerova and those behind it left Wall Street.
Moving through dense jungle, I watched for green vervet monkeys, brought to Saint Kitts as pets, and then left behind when the French departed in 1783.
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