A New Year, A New Class

"Read some chapter of a devout book....It is very easy and most necessary, for just as you speak to God when at prayer, God speaks to you when you read..."

THE CIRCUS II: So these are my new clowns for this year. Yeap, I moved on up to the 3rd grade, it's a little bit easier then first. It does have its perks, however academically these kids aren't too much of a difference from my first graders. At least these ones can sort of read and write. However, my role as an IA has changed from last year. Im not having to repeat myself over and over again, which is good. Its cool cuz I get to do teaching instruction with the ELD kids for a half hour in the morning. Then work w/another small group later on during math. Where as last year I was working w/3 small groups doing the same thing 3 different times for 3 different subjects. Being the room Im suppose to use isnt quite avaiable yet, Ive been using the teacher's lounge and I get a little nervous when teachers walk in. In fact a couple of weeks ago I was doing a math lesson when the principal and the AP were in there. At any rate, I realized I dont want to become an elementary school teacher...too much. Oh yeah and I received a raise last fri too! woOo!

RECTORY WORK: Im excited cuz Ive been helping out putting together the entertainment for the festival. Well I got confirmed to perform Next Phaze, one of those up and coming filipino r & b groups. I talked to the guy last monday and he confirmed errthang for me. Its almost as exciting as when ryan came to my confirmation class! Joyce is going to be quitting(oh why?!)which means who knows if they'll get someone as cool as she was to replace. Apparently its too hard on her body working two jobs, which is understandable. Things are slowly starting to pick up again, now that them summer days are over. Spent most of my time this afternoon booking masses and such into the priests calendars. I really do enjoy working there though, I guess like I said before the sense of having my own office to decorate things and other stuff. I was looking back and how things were a bit difficult during this time last year. No job yet, struggling to make it by...yeah it was hard. Though God never seems to fail us and is always there to provide.

FALL FESTIVAL: Last fri. after work I went to go cehck out the sPv fall festival. FOr the past couple of years I havent had the chance to go cuz of other things coming up. Dang I saw errone there from old confirmation kids, to recent confirmation kids, to even holy fam kids! It seemed a little bit smaller then in the years past, then again maybe it juss seems like that since I havent gone in a while. I remember one year I went w/my cousins when I was younger and I went on that zipper ride and well yeah I yakked cuz I got motion sickness. ha I get motion sickness so easily, its sad! At work today we had this bookmobile and this little portable thing w/books and its really clasterphobic in there. Well it started to shake and I ended up having to get out cuz I wsa getting motiong sickness. ha So back to the festival, Im pretty excited for holy fams I guess being that Im helping organizing apart of it.

SEASON 3: Confirmation season 3 has started, and Im planning on this being my last season. Ive cut down this year in my time helping with the sPv religous ed. program. Instead doing tues. and thursday, I've only committeed to tues. nites. Last year was getting difficult doing both tues. and thursday, on top of that driving back and forth. Season 2 was killer, I dont know how I made out alive. Those kids were the worst in all my years teaching confirmation I never had a class like that. Hopefully season 3 the new class will be a lot better. Some of my kids who I taught in first communion a couple of years ago will be in my class this year. That's something positive to look forward to. Yeah, I know Im getting old! One of the kids came up to me after the mass tontie and said Oh yeah do you remember me you were my first communion teacher. ha I shouldve asked him wha he learned from there. We'll be using something new also this year, the compendium so well see how it all works out. Pray that I get a good class this year.

FREDS AT HB: Saturday nite I went out some of my friends from work to freds. Its this mexican restaraunt with a bar. Its was alright, it was nice juss going out, I kinda wanted to walk along the beach. I always like doing that when I go to the beach its juss relaxing. Her friends were alright, well not that I really talked to them. It was juss hard cuz they're all older then me so it was a bit different. After freds we started the whole bar hopping and went to some irish bar. It was alright it was too loud cuz they were playing music in the background then on top of that had this old man play irish jams at the same time. Oh yeah and then were a lot of older white weird people in there. Yeah, no, not my kind of place to chill. It was cool, I juss wnated to go out and support my friend haha.

SAYING HI: My last entry was dedicated to my lolo who's 100th birfday it would've been a week ago. Anyway, that day my family and I all went to 8am mass. I dont really like the way they have the chapel seating arrangements now. Its too crowded in there and they need that asile in the middle so its not like a total fire hazzard. Anyway, well the first reading talked bout faith hope and love, the three virtues that I said my lolo had. THen later on I received one of those email stories I suscribe to and well the story was titled, 'I love you grandpa.' I think mentioned how that nite before I was flipping through the chicken soup book and the story was on the joy of easter. I really believe it was my lolo's way of saying hi to me. Last nite I was listening ot that song 'my father's heart' and kinda got sad thinking of all the things that lead up to his passing, but its okay he's happy.


INSPIRED: Ive always been inspired by the lives the Saints lived. This past month we celebrate the feast days of some really cool saints. St. Padre Pio one of the mystics to receive the Stigmata I bought this book last year at congress on his reflections and I have yet to read it, but I know his works are always so spirit filled always leaving you wanting for more. Then today the feast day of St. Vincent de Paul, a saint who dedicated his life like Mother Teresa to work w/the poor. I never realized how fun coming up with service projects can be up until I became the service advisor for the youf min. Then thursday, the feast day of San Lorenzo Ruiz, the first filipino saint along with the feast days of the Archangels, raphael, michael, and gabriel. May the lives of the saints continue to inspire and movitate us to live a holy life according to God's will.


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"When it hurts too much to love..."im done, im out God bless!