Goodness I’ve been slacking quite a bit on this whole
blogging thing. Sorry guys! It’s been SO busy lately! Thursday was a longggg day.
It was very hot and all my kids seemed to have a hard time listening to
anything I was saying. Some kids definitely lost some recess time because they
were not paying attention to directions. They seem to like my whole “Jar of
Respect”. There has definitely been more sharing going on lately! I have also
been getting more snacks from students during snack time lately too! Thursday
night was Freshmen Welcome Party. It should have been done a couple weeks ago,
but it didn’t work out until that night. There was lots of food (pretty much
all meat sadly) and entertainment. A boy and a girl had to represent their
class (Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors, and SMs) for a pageant. Roy and Ellie
represented us as Mr. and Ms. Hawaii! They looked fantastic and for their
entrance, Roy swept Ellie up in his arms and carried her to the stage! I loved
it! And he had to tell the story about how they met and he made up such a great
story! I couldn’t stay long because I had too much to do.
I have a child in my class whose name is Alyanna. I know it
isn’t good to have favorites, but she is definitely mine! She always pays
attention, and knows the answers to everything! She is the smartest in the
class and when I hand out worksheets, instead of it taking 30 minutes or more
to do one like the other kids, it takes her about 5 or 10 minutes. So I have
started to make her separate worksheets and she STILL doesn’t have trouble with
them even though it is more advanced than what the other kids are doing. If she
could read, she would definitely be in 1st grade.
Friday was such as nice day! All of us teachers need the
half day. Plus I don’t see my Kindergartners for an hour or so during the day
because I have to teach my Computer classes. It’s very helpful because then I
can finish my kids’ folders to send home. My kids have been having a hard time listening
lately. Especially Haylee, who is usually very attentive and listening. I sent
a letter home with Haylee for her mother explaining that Haylee has had a hard
time listening and I just got told today what the reason was. Apparently Haylee
has started swimming lessons and she has the same problem as me, and gets water
stuck in her ears for a long time. So I gave her mother some of my Swim Ear to
help get rid of the water.
After classes on Friday, the SM’s had to clean up the campus
because we will be holding an evangelistic series here at the gym at school. An
evangelist came from America and he held vespers that night and will be holding
them in they gym until next Sabbath. He is a good speaker, but still, THREE
weeks in a row of evangelistic meetings is a little much. The teachers are
really busy grading and doing other things that we have a hard time going to
the meetings. Especially since they run on island time.
Sabbath was very, very hot! It was a combined church service
today and we all went to Kitti, my church! Roy and Danny came up with the name
for us Kitti people, Keychains. Hahaha! The electricity didn’t go out for the
first time but it was still super duper hot in there because there were so many
people! We then had a “light potluck” with bread and soup and it was very
delicious! Mrs. Edward made some fantastic bread! I really love my church. The
people are very friendly and it keeps very nice and cool in the church because
we actually have windows! My group is pretty awesome too! We had a chill
afternoon, being with friends and napping and then at 7, we had our first
meeting in the school gym. There were a lot of people that showed up! Then for
a late dinner, we went back to Arnolds, the place we went last week. But… it
was closed. And so was all the other restaurants we stopped at! So sad! So I
went back to the apartment and ate some Wheat Thins. It was a good day today! We are now listening to Christmas music and talking about how we are going to make Christmas fun because it is going to be a hard time for all of us I think. I’m
very sleepy and definitely ready for bed! Goodnight ya’ll!! Love all of you! (:
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