"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do..."

This quote certainly applies when youre working with kids. Sometimes i have my days whurr im 'bad mood guy,' and im juss irritated with errthang. As im sure errone else does, but its different when youre working with kids. There are many of my kids who i work with who i know come juss to get attention. To be perfectly honest, there are days whurr i juss cant give them that attention. There are days whurr im juss agh w/errthang. So im working on being able to show and be love to them all the time. Im striving to be patient with them but its juss so difficult at times. Like today for example, some kid called 911 on the pay phone and boned out of the room. I saw him and i chased after him, as if they think im stupid.

Tonite was another one of those challenges. Along w/my fellow SRE teachers we had to form together a living human rosary. So i had to get these kids into a circle to start to form a rosary type shape. Then asign them which prayer theyre gonna do. I was getting mixed up cuz i would forget which prayer theyre suppose to be so i would have to go back and count. After we finally get errthang organized were about to start then sandy brings in the other SRE classes which i had no idea about. Then we finally start it some kids werent taking it seriously and there was these couple of guys who were in jeannes class who were testing me. He was like i dont want to do this can i go sit down over there. I snapped and i said no! Then some of the kids werent even talking loud and speaking into the mic. One of teh teachers interuppted and said they had a difficult time following along cuz they couldnt hurr which bead they were on.

ALl in all praise God it went really well at the end i summed it up w/a review lesson on why we prayed the rosary tonite. I gave them a small lesson on who the Pope is and what does he do. I asked the kids who is the our Pope? ONe of the kids volunteered and said, 'JOhn Paul II!' I said yeah thas right very good, our Pope is John Paul II. THen i asked what does our Pope do?One kid raised his hand which i thought was cute and said, 'He's a priest!' hahaha i said yeah thas true hes a priest but wha else does he do. They didnt know so i explained to them as simple as i could w/o them getting confused! haha Then i asked whurr the POpe lives and the kids knew which was good. Then i emphasized the importance of learning and memorizing the 'OUr Father, 'Hail Mary' and 'GLory Be.' I think for most kids the hardest one is the Hail Mary cuz it can be a tounge twister for them. THe glory be was always easy for me cuz its like saying the sign of the cross. So im sure our Holy Father enjoyed this anniversary present!

Went out w/ann last nite to chill, i havent really talked to her since her bonfire. FUnny thing, we ran into jay's mom and jay so we invited them to sit with us. I actually bought a drink tonite, usually when i go out i dont buy anything. SO anne, jays mom and i all bought margaritas. We talked forever bout houses, SRE and other stuff. THen after ann and i sat in the car forever talking bout relationships and stuff. We were talking bout the whole dating thing bout how shes through w/that. Meaning she wants to find i guess you could say 'the one?' Juss someone shell want to settle down with. Juss cuz its useless to go through the heart ache of a break-up and blah blah.

That pic is funny above is funny, it looks like an afghan women and a robber. Toni is freakin hillarious! ANyway silverado days is this weekend! yay! i love silverado days cuz its fun thas when you see errone there. I noticed this year they didnt make it thurs.-sun. only the weekend. Usually they do but whatevers maybe cuz its for saftey reasons. Im excited to do do the homeless outreach. THen its my uncles suprise birfday party at the marriott sat nite. Gee i cant believe how its already been a week since i got my answered prayer. IM still having last weekend withrdawls. haha Supposedly im suppose to see the burger king today. Ive been trying to go since last week but cuz of our schedules have been so hectic.

So next fri. theyre having this interfaith fundraiser to help raise $$ to build a new interfaith. INterfaith is the place whurr UCI students go to have mass and meet for their religous groups. Well theyre going to demolish the building i forgot for wha reason. SO theyre having this fundraiser cuz if the big people see that the students curr about the building maybe they'll build another one. THeyre having this casino nite fundraiser, which sounds fun. I made this deal with this girl from mustard seed at hte bonfire, if she comes on tues. ill come to the casino nite. ITs $15 to get in! aww heck!!! but cuz im compassion isda ill probably go and help out. Theyre gonna have raffle prizes like cheesecake factory, $100 shopping spree to souf coast plaza etc. ectc. I got some weird random email from 'angels1jose' and they said 'hi' thas it. weird...




Happy 25th anniversary Pope John Paul II!

"Stand up! When I move you move, just like that?..."im done, im out God bless!