1st grade is by far the most challenging class! Mandy has a Tracy Chapman (never heard of him-but now he is quite my favorite because-) cd that has worked magic on our crazy class of kiddos-along with some incense the kids immediately settle down-relief! For the past two weeks we have been doing secret friends at school-so all the teachers give each other secret gifts everyday-its been fun! Coke is everywhere here! And it is much tastier and cheaper-they use real sugar and a larger coke is less than a dollar.
Coloring, coloring, coloring. I never knew that being a teacher involved so much cutting, pasting, and coloring:) Thankfully, I love to draw! So, sitting with the little ones and drawing is relaxing-soothing-haha, and the kids love it when I draw self-portraits of them.
On Saturday I shared with Loolve and some of the other girls Shakespeare-sonnet 116 (my favorite) and made them brownies. It was so much fun! Loolve recited it over and over again with great empathy-passion-drama-<3-love it!
There is an opportunity for me to teach/tutor one of the older gals at Casa Hogar named Pam. She is at the university and knows quite a bit of English, but wants to improve her grammar and essay writing skills-perfect! I'll be giving her homework every week and working one-on-one with her on Saturday mornings. I pray that God will use this to deepen our relationship-so that we can be spiritually close-encourage/pray with each other.
Humph-so today I had one of those selfish-"nothing is going well for me" breakdowns. I hate to say that I went to that extreme-but alas all I can boast in the God who uses my lackluster being. After school I came home hoping to go running-but it was so hot and I am unable to run very far because of safety and so was pouting about that-I was so hot, tired, and angrily asked God, why am I here? Ah, I was fighting, battling the urges to shut all out around me and just be miss grumpy pants about what I don't get to do here-its such a weighty, sick feeling when egotism casts it gloomy shadow over your mind and soul. I've not been able to exercise much at all here-which is usually my release and time alone. All this to say-I was incredibly ucky feeling and angry- a pitiful sight indeed! God is faithful even to pathetic, selfish, persons such as myself. Praise music and prayer-wow-my energy came back and I spent the rest of the evening with the girls laughing-more coloring :) playing-speaking little bits of Spanish. It was a splendid evening and its hard for me to imagine that I was in such a horrid pit. I will forever praise His name! I rejoice in Him!
Coloring, coloring, coloring. I never knew that being a teacher involved so much cutting, pasting, and coloring:) Thankfully, I love to draw! So, sitting with the little ones and drawing is relaxing-soothing-haha, and the kids love it when I draw self-portraits of them.
On Saturday I shared with Loolve and some of the other girls Shakespeare-sonnet 116 (my favorite) and made them brownies. It was so much fun! Loolve recited it over and over again with great empathy-passion-drama-<3-love it!
There is an opportunity for me to teach/tutor one of the older gals at Casa Hogar named Pam. She is at the university and knows quite a bit of English, but wants to improve her grammar and essay writing skills-perfect! I'll be giving her homework every week and working one-on-one with her on Saturday mornings. I pray that God will use this to deepen our relationship-so that we can be spiritually close-encourage/pray with each other.
Humph-so today I had one of those selfish-"nothing is going well for me" breakdowns. I hate to say that I went to that extreme-but alas all I can boast in the God who uses my lackluster being. After school I came home hoping to go running-but it was so hot and I am unable to run very far because of safety and so was pouting about that-I was so hot, tired, and angrily asked God, why am I here? Ah, I was fighting, battling the urges to shut all out around me and just be miss grumpy pants about what I don't get to do here-its such a weighty, sick feeling when egotism casts it gloomy shadow over your mind and soul. I've not been able to exercise much at all here-which is usually my release and time alone. All this to say-I was incredibly ucky feeling and angry- a pitiful sight indeed! God is faithful even to pathetic, selfish, persons such as myself. Praise music and prayer-wow-my energy came back and I spent the rest of the evening with the girls laughing-more coloring :) playing-speaking little bits of Spanish. It was a splendid evening and its hard for me to imagine that I was in such a horrid pit. I will forever praise His name! I rejoice in Him!
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