Blessing In Disguise

"If a person be a person and not a beast, then he must be a samurai - brave, generous, upright, faithful, and manly, full of self-respect and self-confidence, and at the same time full of the spirit of self-sacrifice..."

MEAN GIRLS: Due to lindsay lohans car accident, I had dedicated my nite to re-watching mean girls ha! jk Actually though I did watch mean girls and its so funny cuz it brought back memories of hs in a sense. Well, of course errone had their own cliques, but for the most part, I think my skool was pretty diverse. Its juss funny how cady got so caught up in trying to be popular crowd that her old self got drowned out. I think if were one of the plastics, Id be georgina I think thas her name. Anyway, the girl lacey chabert plays...ha rob would be regina the queen bee! Sometimes movies are always better watching it the 2nd time around.

TWO INTERVIEWS, ONE DAY: Tuesday, I had two different interviews, for two different school districts. The first one, was the cypress skool district for an ELD instructional assitant. Instructional assitant is a fancy way of saying teachers aide now a days. I guess to give the title more of a professional title, rather then juss 'teacher's aide.' Anyway, it was a little skurry at first, 4 different people on the panel with 10 different questions. They seemed like me from how the interview was going. It's been a little while since I've gone through a job interview, so I was a little nervous. Asking me wha my experiences were, give me different scenarios, background working w/eld students, how familiar am I with the curriculum, wha do I feel is needed in the position etc. In the end the principal at the site Id be working at said they were going to do background checks today and then call backs next week.

THE SECOND ONE: The second one was for the school district I had applied for way back in june, yet never heard from them until now. This was a little bit easier, only 7 questions this time but still 4 different people on the panel. The benefit however was, the principal at the site I would work at use to be my 5th grade teacher. WEll my 5th grade teacher and my sisters 5th grade teacher too. She use to be real close to my family when I was in skool. Always looking out for the best of us. Geninuely a really nice person. She came out hugged me, and gave me a heads up and told me not to be nervous. Asked if I still had my public speaking skills ha. There was one question that I kinda got stuck on. I forgot wha it was though, I paused for a little bit but then juss gave the best answer I could. For this one they would let me know by the end of the week the status.

ANSWERED PRAYER: Praise God cuz this morning I get a vmail from centralia asking me to give them a call back. I call them back and the human resources lady was offering me the position woOo! I was so excited when I heard that! Thas probably the best phrase to hear, 'we'd like to offer you the position of an instructional assitant.' Now the next step is getting my tb test done and finger printing and Im set to go. I already met the teacher Im going to be working with. Its going to be a kindergarten class from like 930am-130pm something like that. Im really excited cuz its something Ive always wanted to work in. Of course there's pros and cons, but for the most part I'm juss excited I have a job now. In fact I think I did pretty well, it's only been two weeks since I quit and for not having anything back up on...I'm quite proud of myself. The skool is less then 5 min. away from my house too! I juss hope it all works out, I really am excited for this new adventure.

A MILLION THANKS: I cant thank you all enough for you kind words, support, and prayers throughout these past two weeks. Maybe thas also part of the reason I wasn't so bummed out bout the job cuz I had people praying for me. Even though its only been two weeeks, it feels like it's been a month or longer. Thanks for your prayers yesterday during my interview, and those juss praying that I'd find a job. Its still amazes me how errthang worked out. God fit errthang to place at the right time. Errtime I think back and reflect on these past two weeks Im juss in awe. Errone was so right bout God letting it happen for a reason, that He had something else in store for me. I was thinking to myself, perhaps God didnt give me a new job during the summer cuz there was work to do at fern street. Maybe I was called to help build up that center, to build up those kids and I think over the summer I did accomplish that. Wow God is certainly a-m-a-z-i-n-g!

FILLING UP: So the second day of confirmation two, was pretty hm interesting. Im still trying to feel out the kids, and yet it's still hard knowing that its a brand new class. Its hard to discern exactly wha these kids want or need or where exactly to go with them. In fact I came into the classroom w/nothing prepared at all ha. Then I saw caroline had this interesting activiny on 'lying' using that song 'dont lie.' We ended up doing that for a little bit, and from there I went on to talk bout myself, why I am where I am today. It was a little hard to back track how it all happened, I mean it all happened to fast. Though I felt it was important to share w/them bout how I came to love the catholic church. I think the whole mass lecture kinda got through to some of them at least. Most of them turned in their mass cards, which is good. I have two aides in my class, allen and carl. I think carl will be a useful tool being he was in my class for two years. One of the parents from my thurs. class who opens the doors for us on tues. told me that he heard I was passionate bout wha I teach. It kinda made me feel good inside, cuz I really do feel that in order to teach, you have to be passionate bout wha you teach. And I am very passionate bout my faith, and the experiences that drew me to where I am today. Praise God!

THE SEASON FINALE: The final show of 'so you think you can dance' was on tonite. Even though I wasnt there, I felt like wow what an amaznig journey. ha Thas crazy out of hundreds of people one person is chosen, well I guess its juss like american idol. Though I like this one better cuz it forces the dancers to dance outside their comfort zone. I though jamille would get 2nd, I didnt think melody wouldve gotten 2nd. Obviously, I was hoping she'd get first but whatever ha. It was cool seeing all the dancers come back, but I wish they wouldve done more of the group dances rather then having all these other nonsense on there. It wouldve been more meaningful I think at least. Oh well, its all done with I have the memories of the dances on vhs ha thas so ol skool. Actually, I dloaded some of my fav. dances online after it was over. WoOo!

COMING BACK: Went to 24 hr. tonite, its been at least a couple of weeks since I've last gone. It felt good, being back there and trying to get healthy and skinny again. These past couple of weeks have been so darn hectic, that by the time I get home I have no more energy inside of me. I need to try and dedicate more time to going there, heck there's juss one right next ot my house. I still want to do the whole walking over there from my house and back. Swimming was fun tonite, it brought back water polo memories. Those were days..I'm so slow swimming that it's sad! I need to get goggles though cuz that chlorine is pretty killer. Spa was nice and relaxing, it helped clear my head of all the madness going on. It's been a weird a week, but definetly a blessing.


i really am surrounded by the communion of saints!

"It would be to show you how I feel..."im done, im out God bless!