Coco, Momo, Jr. Highers, and Hangman
I doubt there is another job on this earth as exciting and adventurous, as an elementary school teacher. Add to that a foreign English teacher in Taiwan, and you have more than just "adventurous."
On Monday morning, I invented a brand new game to introduce to my 6th grade class that very morning. Twenty minutes later, when I arrived at the school, I realized I had left all the aids for the game back at the dorm (whoops!). We ended up playing the all time favorite, "Hangman"...so much for being creative. On Tuesday morning, I finalized the lesson plan that I had so carefully planned the evening before on vocab and sentence structure. Thirty minutes later, I found out I wasn't teaching vocab and sentence structure that day after all. On Wednesday, I left for school feeling like I couldn't possibly be any more LESS prepared. Twenty minutes later, I was enjoying one of my best English classes yet(hmmm....imagine the irony of that). Tomorrow is Thursday. The week is but half over...and who knows what tomorrow will hold!
Last Sunday evening, I sent out a frantic email to many people requesting prayer for a special class we teach at our Jr. High School for "potential dropout" students. The past few weeks we have had no control over the classroom whatsoever, and there are only 8 students!! Also, our communication with the students' teacher had been really bad and we just didn't know what to do! To say the least, the first few classes were "rough." As a team, we decided to really lift this class up in prayer. Monday night came, and the Lord answered our prayer (and yours!) in 2 very specific ways:
1.) We were able to talk with the teacher (through translation) and get her feedback on what she really wanted us to do. She asked us to LOVE the students and to not be frustrated with them. She also asked us to PRAY for them.
2.) As the class started, two new students came walking in, and I just about went RUNNING OUT! They were two guys that I had known from playing basketball. Let's just say, they have a reputation for being... ummm..."special!" However, as the class went on, both boys did really well. This was the first time for both of the boys. The teacher had been asking them for 5 weeks to come. We did 1 on 1 tutoring with them, and the teacher was VERY pleased. THANK YOU FOR PRAYING!
"I will praise Thee, O Lord, among the people, I will sing unto Thee among the nations!" (Psalm 57:7-10)
Lucas
