Yikes! It has been a long time since we last updated! I (Becca) started teaching on Monday, August 11. I will be teaching Science and Math to 4th and 5th graders. The first two days went smoothly. Tomorrow I will begin the "real" teaching. Students will change classes for the first time, and I will truly begin teaching, instead of simply teaching rules and procedures.
I am encouraged after two days of teaching. The students are wonderful--full of personality. They are very social creatures, which suits me very well. My only struggle right now is with myself. I am the type of person who likes to plan well in advance. If it were up to me, I would have planned the entire school year a month ago. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. Instead, I found out on Friday (the 8th) that I would teach 5th grade, and then changed it on Monday (the 11th) to a departmentalized 4th/5th math/science. Don't get me wrong, I am excited about my teaching assignment. But it is totally against my personality to "fly by the seat of my pants." I get home at the end of the day--exhausted--and then proceed to spend a few hours trying to plan the next day. I am hoping to get ahead soon, so that I can relax and live life a little!
Kyle is the perfect husband...he is completely patient with me. He takes care of me when I'm too tired to cook, and he has been very understanding of the difficult situation work has put me in. As I said before, hopefully I can get ahead soon, so that I can live life...maybe I can take care of him sometime too!
The Lord continues to provide. He has given us plenty of food each day, a wonderful shelter, and an amazing support system. We have found a church that we love, and will probably join soon. He sent my parents at just the time we would need them most. (They came this past weekend and spent almost their entire 24 hour vacation in my classroom, cleaning and unpacking and repacking.) He is faithful in all things.
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