A New Year and a lot of fun

This semester has been so much fun already and I have only been here a week. So many times I would just get in a routine and it was that same routine everyday never really seeing the excitement of what I was doing.

This started before I even left the states. My whole trip was full of new experiences. First leaving Chicago we had about an hour delay where we sat on the plane because something was broken but I was really excited because I got to sit by the window. Then I get to Washington D.C. and we go to get on the flight and when I handed my ticket to the guy it flashed red and I was like what is wrong and he said I had a seat change. I look at my new ticket and I had been upgraded to United Business which is just like sitting in first class. It was amazing! Never would I have imagined sitting up enjoying all of that. It was totally a switch up, definitely out of my routine.

Wednesday when we started school I was so excited to get back into my routine of being in school. It is funny how God works in little ways and reminds us of why He put us here. Wednesday was probably the best day of this year, I had so much fun being with my students and it made me realize how much I love teaching these kids. I have never had so much fun being in my classroom. I was excited to see if I would have any more students added to my class and I only had one new friend. My class is now up to 14 wonderful students. 6 boys and 8 girls. It is really amazing to see how my class welcomes the new students and it is really awesome to see how God unites them and allows them to all get along for the most part.

I also got to see the impact of having the study hall last semester. I don't get the pleasure of having them this semester but they still come by my class and say hi. It was really cool because I had more than one of them come by and tell me how much they miss being in the study hall. I do miss them a lot.

This weekend me and three other teachers went to our favorite Chinese restaurant for dinner on Friday night and it was such a blast I really do love hanging out with these teachers. This was a random night in itself. So we always go to this restaurant we want to order the sweet and sour pork in a whole pineapple but they never have to pineapple. So this time we decided we were going to bring our own. So we stopped on the side of the road picked up the pineapple and took it to the restaurant. Kim is ordering so she says we would like the sweet and sour pork in the whole pineapple. Waiter- We don't have that. Us- no worries we brought our own. Waiter- laughed and took the pineapple to the kitchen. We all laughed so hard. Never in America would that happen.Then on Saturday we got to go to the Koffee House which is our new little spot that we like to go to and just hung out and talk.

As I was thinking about how I could keep everyone better informed of what God was doing each week when I write I am going to add a section called Get your Praise On and I am just going to say a couple of things that God has done.

GET YOUR PRAISE ON

1. We have our land purchased and will start clearing for a soccer field hopefully next week.

2. This new semester is starting off great with 14 students.

3. I got here safely and in style.

4. A wonderful family and church family at home that really supports me. Thanks soooo much !