October 11th, 2006
Today is the first day of school after our five-day weekend with the Moon Festival. Hmmm... I'd like to go into detail of how great it was to be back in school, but today is a Wednesday, and like every Wednesday, I now have a headache....
My Wednesday morning school is the smallest school I work at. It's kinda fun to go into a class of only 8 students and teach English conversation. "English Conversation" is a great excuse to play games and do other "activities". The teacher I work with at that school usually gives me freedom to teach what I want, but also tends to dump the "darbie song" on me every once in a while. After teaching grades 3-6, I ate lunch with the first graders. That was kind of funny. They haven't started English classes yet, but they sure know their "hellos".
In the afternoon I had a full schedule of trying to keep fifth graders in class for 3 1/2 hours. I try to balance it so that we don't do too much class time, and we don't do too much activity time. However, by the final period, I was loosing my voice, and had a terrible headache. The students were also really tired.... that was kind of funny. I just laughed at the "hyper boys" that were falling asleep in their desks....haha....
Wednesday is NOT my favorite day, but I know that this is my "new challenge" from the Lord this year. I'm so glad that God gives us "new challenges" and opportunities for us to grow. I can't wait to see what God will do in this "good work" that He "began in me".
"Being confident of this, that He Who began a good work in you, will carry it on to completion until the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:6
Lucas
Kinmen Team
