After a tearful day, I am emotionally wiped. And as usual I find myself at blame for quite a bit of life. Me and my stupid ego always assume assume assume...and as we all know nothing good comes of that.
I need lots of prayer because I need people but not the need that is a good type. I am just a needy person. I hate being needy and hate that I don't know how to express my need without making people feel guilty. I need to work on that. I need God to provide people for me outside of JCS.
I need God to allow me to be content with who I am something that I can't do and that I can't conquer. I've been fighting and fighting since 10th grade.
I've got the brokeness part down I just need to the growing part to commence...sooner rather than later.
Prayer Requests for the Week:
1. my relationships
2. my interactions with my students
3. my emotional strength
4. money to buy curtains....or at least a store to buy fabric at.
5. contentment with my life and who i am as a person.
28 September 2008
27 September 2008
Pictures for All
This would be my empty room at the new house.
My Bed and my mosquito net!
Salto Biaguate(sp?) Our Sunday morning excursion...just one of the perks of having church in the evening....you can go on fun adventures in the morning.
My students practicing their readers theater productions. This group is doing a book from Reading A-Z called Hippo's Toothache.
Pinochio.
There will be more pictures later when I have more time to upload them. Today my activity is having my computer completely reformated because it caught a very bad virus. So sad news is I'm losing a little over half of my music library but thank goodness for Picasa because I won't be losing any of my pictures!!!!
18 September 2008
Learning Life's Difficult Lessons
Sometimes life is like a mosquito; annoying and painful. Currently life is just annoying; like a small mosquito that flies around your head at night when you're trying to sleep.
I have all these swirling thoughts that go around and around in my head while I'm trying to teach. I find myself distracted by these thoughts and by the 4 students that are not on task and growing increasingly annoyed daily. Today I had finally had it! I responded incorrectly and had to ask my students to forgive me...tough but necessary.
I am struggling with how to show my students Christ's love in a way that they can understand. Sometimes discipline needs to be done in a loving manner but I've been struggling to find that balance of love and logic (funny, someone actually wrote a book on that). Thankfully, we have other teachers who know the students are equally as willing and concerned to sit down with you and talk. I think without them I would be lost and ready to quit.
I came to the DR with the purpose of following 1) God's will and 2) to be broken...and that is what God is doing. He is checking things off my list and breaking me in more ways that I know how to handle at once. Being broken is often viewed as a bad thing, but God has shown me in the past that being broken often leads to more growth and knowledge in the long run. Pray that this continues to be the trend and that I learn to love my students despite being overwhelmed with them.
Life on the non-school front is good; I am no longer sick! Our house is getting settled and I have found a good church to call my church home here. Ironically, it's the church I wasn't planning on attending when I first moved down here. I am attending Amor y Quisqueya (roughly translated Love and Brotherhood)[also known to my TUSB team members from 07 as the "Jumping for Jesus" church]. I attended here my second Sunday ever in Jarabacoa back in 2007 on Easter on which church lasted about 3.5 hours...I was pretty sure I didn't want to go back. But now I call this church my church...yes, church is still about 3 hours but I love the 1 hour of worship and trying to decipher my way through the nearly 2 hour sermons each week.
Prayer:
My patience as I continue training my students (both is school work and in their behaviors)
Health (so far other than the flu I've been good).
My students (Carla Nicole, Noah, Luis, Estanli, Ronnie, Jumel, Nicole, Anya, Brenda, Emmanuel C., Emanuell O., Brian, & Marlyn)
The school as we continue our construction and ACSI accreditation.
I have all these swirling thoughts that go around and around in my head while I'm trying to teach. I find myself distracted by these thoughts and by the 4 students that are not on task and growing increasingly annoyed daily. Today I had finally had it! I responded incorrectly and had to ask my students to forgive me...tough but necessary.
I am struggling with how to show my students Christ's love in a way that they can understand. Sometimes discipline needs to be done in a loving manner but I've been struggling to find that balance of love and logic (funny, someone actually wrote a book on that). Thankfully, we have other teachers who know the students are equally as willing and concerned to sit down with you and talk. I think without them I would be lost and ready to quit.
I came to the DR with the purpose of following 1) God's will and 2) to be broken...and that is what God is doing. He is checking things off my list and breaking me in more ways that I know how to handle at once. Being broken is often viewed as a bad thing, but God has shown me in the past that being broken often leads to more growth and knowledge in the long run. Pray that this continues to be the trend and that I learn to love my students despite being overwhelmed with them.
Life on the non-school front is good; I am no longer sick! Our house is getting settled and I have found a good church to call my church home here. Ironically, it's the church I wasn't planning on attending when I first moved down here. I am attending Amor y Quisqueya (roughly translated Love and Brotherhood)[also known to my TUSB team members from 07 as the "Jumping for Jesus" church]. I attended here my second Sunday ever in Jarabacoa back in 2007 on Easter on which church lasted about 3.5 hours...I was pretty sure I didn't want to go back. But now I call this church my church...yes, church is still about 3 hours but I love the 1 hour of worship and trying to decipher my way through the nearly 2 hour sermons each week.
Prayer:
My patience as I continue training my students (both is school work and in their behaviors)
Health (so far other than the flu I've been good).
My students (Carla Nicole, Noah, Luis, Estanli, Ronnie, Jumel, Nicole, Anya, Brenda, Emmanuel C., Emanuell O., Brian, & Marlyn)
The school as we continue our construction and ACSI accreditation.
13 September 2008
Rest and Relaxation
My life has been super stressful right now with moving and school. Not that I wasn't expecting life to be stressful here, but I wasn't expecting it all at once.
Between getting a new student this week and moving to a new house I was shot. Instead of going to the beach like I had planned today I spent this morning throwing up and ill at my house alone. Way to spend the first weekend at the house...sick. It turns out to be a 24 hour flu bug so I'm done with it now. But I think I'll hold off being sick for awhile more.
Between getting a new student this week and moving to a new house I was shot. Instead of going to the beach like I had planned today I spent this morning throwing up and ill at my house alone. Way to spend the first weekend at the house...sick. It turns out to be a 24 hour flu bug so I'm done with it now. But I think I'll hold off being sick for awhile more.
11 September 2008
MOVING DAY!
Hooray for moving to new houses! Today is moving day here and my house is more than just excited! We are so ready to be gone from our house. Last night we had our last encounter with our flooding bathrooms for what hopefully will be the last time! Our new house is super cute and close to school. This will greatly reduce time it takes to get to and from school = the ability to sleep in.
07 September 2008
Week 5
Prayer:
Patience.
Patience.
Patience.
Our move this week.
Planning....that I won't get into a rut with my lesson planning. I'm trying re-evalutate my lessons; especially my Bible lessons. I don't have curriculum so I'm struggling. I want to use the ACSI curriculum, but I don't have $90 to buy the teacher's curriculum. The student book is only $17 so I'm considering buying that and using the activities from there. Please pray for guidance in making this decision. Also if anyone has good suggestions/old curriculum send them my way.
Patience.
Patience.
Patience.
Our move this week.
Planning....that I won't get into a rut with my lesson planning. I'm trying re-evalutate my lessons; especially my Bible lessons. I don't have curriculum so I'm struggling. I want to use the ACSI curriculum, but I don't have $90 to buy the teacher's curriculum. The student book is only $17 so I'm considering buying that and using the activities from there. Please pray for guidance in making this decision. Also if anyone has good suggestions/old curriculum send them my way.
05 September 2008
Week 4.... DONE.
Well I've completed week 4 of life in the Domincan Republic. This week was a crazy week because of living in the here during hurricane season. This week we only had 3 and a half days of school due to the Secretary of Education here. We have however been granted permission to decide our own school open and closing procedures because of being a private school. Hopefully we will not have this confusion in the future with future storms.
Also this weekend we were going to go to the beach, but we have canceled the trip due to hurrican Ike. So we have no plans at our house this weekend other than to relax.
Also this weekend we were going to go to the beach, but we have canceled the trip due to hurrican Ike. So we have no plans at our house this weekend other than to relax.
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