Making it work

Hello again!

I am not feeling as energetic as my greeting. I just got home from teaching and I am feeling pooped!  But I have to plan my lesson for the next day, which takes so long to do.

Last week was my first week teaching, and even though it went well I was really stressed and exhausted by the end of it. I found it demanding to tweak materials into a way that makes more sense to me, plus adjust to teaching.  Last week I felt like my mouth was dry all the time because I talk so much when I teach, and because I teach from 9-1 I totally skip lunch and my system was not liking it.

This week is going a lot smoother, although I had a student cry in my class yesterday!  The subject matter was difficult, but she said that she was going through a lot of changes and was having a tough day.  She was smiling by the end though, thank goodness!

I love LOVE my students!  I feel so comfortable around international people.  Part of me feels like I'm back in elementary school and high school because everyone was from all over.  They also make me laugh a lot by saying funny things like a Brazilian student wants to experience earthquakes and the Japanese students are like NO, why would you want that?

Although this week is going smoother, our youth director's husband at church passed away suddenly while he was overseas on Sunday.  Justin and I are both youth leaders so we have been involved in the situation by calling kids and last night we all met at the church to pray for the family.  I am just feeling some heaviness from it this week, last night went really well though with the youth group and I felt some of the burden lifted.

Tomorrow is Spring!  Which makes me so excited, but we still have snow on the ground and some in the forecast for tomorrow.  I am optimistic that it won't last too much longer though, I have spotted a few plants fighting their way up out of the ground.

Hope you ladies get a lovely Spring day tomorrow!