Looking Back...

"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life..."

PERFECT 15: We had oral or wha its called a 'communal learning' quiz today in history. There's always plus and minuses to it. I get nervous being put on the spot trying to figure out wha the answer is cuz I feel kinda stupid if I get it wrong. Anyway, goood thing he didnt call me this time around! The nice thing is that we all got 15/15, a pretty simple quiz. One thing bout the class is that maan his lectures last forever!! Even when class is suppose to end, hes still trying ot get in a couple more words. I thought I was going to be late to work!

DISASTER DRILL: It seems like a lot of different skool districts/skools had a practice disaster drill today. You know when some type of bell rings, and the whole entire skool has to go out to the field away from the building. Sometimes it only takes 5 min. sometimes it takes an hour and youre juss standing there bored to death cuz there's nothing to do. I came at the end of it, and the custodian as I was walking in didnt want to let me in cuz of the drill. Then I said uh I work here, then showed my badge. He looked at hte nurse and the nurse was like, 'its over already. ' BY the time I got to the field, it was time to go back to class. The kids weere alright today, I think I get juss worn out cuz of the whole language barier between me and them. They probably think my spanish is juss horrible.

SWAPPING STORIES: As usual, I was sitting in the lounge today eating lunch my byself at the table and this teacher was sitting there sharing a story bout one of the kids and the problems she was having. It was pretty funny, the stuff that was going on and how the mom is juss trying to the fight the battle. The thing that Ive noticed this past week is how important hospitality is. Here I am the new guy and yet not one of those teachers in the lounge has made the effort to ask who I am or even bother to intro. themselves. I guess it juss kinda bugs me that I'm kinda left out. I wonder if they dont like the teacher I work with, if she's like the black sheep or something. Anyway, maybe I juss gotta give it some more time.

THE ARCHIVES: I went back reflecting and reading my old blog entries from the past summer. Some of the things that happened, seemed as if they were forever long ago. Things were a bit different then they are now. I was checking out the pics from the first how performance back in june, wow whatta nite that was. Then there were pics of some of the youf and I thought how funny that I'm friends with those people now. Its always fun to look back and read wha was going in your life ages ago. I juss wish I was still able to print them out and make my books. Abe came by today to print something out for skool and it was fun juss talking him and I. I miss him being my aide on tues. nites, where we would juss sit in the classroom and talk forever. I love having friends who talk a lot like me!

330 DAYS: For some reason the past couple of thursdays, Ive been wanting to go 330 in brea. I dont know why maybe its juss cuz I saw an add for it or something. Those days were fun, even though the place was always hella crowded and you always ran into someone you knew there. Maybe when my friend comes back from new york we can go ha. Its like its some type of craving Im having orr something.

BLESSED TRINITY: The past 3 weeks of thurs. nite SRE, ive been going over the very beginning lessons of our fatih. Starting from the sign of the cross, the holy trinity. Man, its been a challenge, cuz I havent gone back to the beginning this far since I stopped teaching primary grades. Though tonite, praise God cuz theyve been real attentive and learning. We reviewed before talking bout the Holy Spirit, bout God the Son. They remembered the important stuff like Jesus being both 100% divine and 100% human. I asked them the question bout Jesus being divine and human woo! praise God! Im so glad to see that they're making progress in learning this stuff. So next week, Im giving them a little quiz to see how well they're retaining the information. One kid though(there always has to be one)was kinda irritating me cuz during my lecture tonite he was drawing pictures! He sat there and wrote 'the game' then put
'g-unot' 50 cent sucks, then made another w/something like ja rule. Whas funny is this kid, is totally the type you'd expect drawing this stuff. Picture a kip from naploleon dynamite juss w/o the glasses though. ha!

another busy weekend ahead!

"And we'll linger on..."im done, im out GOd bless!