EOGs are over. Praise the Lord! I had a little motivational song for my kids inspired by a little train from our childhood we all know and love. "I know I can, I know I can..." was what I kept telling my kids about the test and now I'm telling myself the same thing about school. "I know I can, I know I can" get through the rest of this year and mountains of paperwork. For those of you not in the education world, teachers have a lot of paper work to fill out at the end of the year. Due to Bush's No Child Left Behind we as teachers have to document and redocument everything we do. Therefore as the year rounds out, I have approximately 5 documents to fill out for each kid. Multiply that by 23 kids and I have approximately 115 pieces of a paper to fill out. I have to say that I like Bush and his idea was good in theory but in reality there are a lot of things about it I don't agree with. This being one of them!
Other than that, things are trucking along. Jeff and Lauren moved yesterday and it was a lot harder than I thought it was. I had become attached to them very quickly and will miss seeing them across the parking lot everyday. We'll have to go through the same thing 2 weekends from now when Josh and Brooke leave. That's what hard about seminary...you become involved in the lives of these people and they are only here for short time. I know the Lord has amazing plans for each of them, but in some ways I just wished they were the same for us all. (I know I'm selfish)
By the way, I read a great book this weekend and if you haven't read it you really should. It's called The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers and it's about a girl who gets raped her freshman year in college and becomes pregant. It goes through her internal struggles with the ordeal as well the struggles those around her go through. It's crazy to see it through the eyes of the person who it happened to. I am definitely pro-life but it really made you stop and think what would I have done if I had been in that situation. Any way, its a must read! This book also proved to me why I don't read books for pleasure during the school year. I became so involved in the book that I couldn't put it down therefore getting less sleep and introverted the whole weekend. It's funny how I get so involved in the plot and the character's life that I feel like I'm in the story and cannot separate myself from what is written to my real life. It affects my emotions and the way I treat others around me. I'm also so attached that when I'm finished I feel a sense of lost as my time with those characters are over. I want to know how their story continues, what became of them. I know I'm weird...it's ok...I admit it. :)
Ok enough for now...have a terrific Memorial day!
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