We've had a few weeks of very cold weather, so I thought I'd post up some pictures of the snow around here :)
... 20 minutes later...
unfortunately, the internet cut out in the middle of my uploading process, so I'll just tell you that it's beautiful!
Last week was spirit week at school, so we had Pajama Day, Wacky Day, Space Day, Barbie Day, and then MCS Spirit day. Our soccer team boys left this afternoon for Dhaka to play in a tournament, so we're all cheering them on in spirit.
One of the gap year students has gotten really sick with some unknown bug and is flying back home to Germany today for treatment. She's planning on being back by the end of March. Pray for her, that she'd have a great time with her family and that the doctors would be able to figure out and fix whatever is wrong with her.
Our play is being rehearsed daily... I still don't feel like we'll be anywhere near ready for what we want to have done by the end of the term, but hopefully it'll all turn out fine!
I think that's mostly what's new on my end. I hope you're all doing well!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Term 3, Week 4
We had our first big snowfall in the past few days. It started snowing on Thursday morning and snowed all day, dropping about 5 inches. It thundered and stormed again last night and we woke up to about 3 or 4 more inches! The students have been making snow sculptures and forts and having snow ball fights all day. I enjoyed standing under an overhang after lunch today and watching massive clumps of snow drop from the branches of the trees and slide off the roofs.
We're almost half way through the term, and these past few weeks have probably been my best so far (teaching-wise). I've got a lot more self-confidence, which has made a huge difference.
We're rehearsing almost every day for the end-of-term play the Elementary kids are putting on, based on Max Lucado's book "You Are Special." One of Lucy's (my co-teacher's) friends in Australia wrote it, but she's had to do a lot of work to it to adapt it to our students in order to give everyone a speaking part. I'm in charge of sets and props, so most of my work will come in later. It's exciting to have something kind of outside of school to work on.
Also, after I taught the 7th graders some line dancing last term, one of the girls was interested in starting up a dance club. We've put up a sign up sheet, and we'll see if anyone is interested. That would also be a great distraction!
The Elementary house parents have been feeling really overwhelmed lately. This is their first year, and they came late because of their visas, so the kids had already had 3 interim house parents before they came. They're from Germany and don't speak English fluently. They're getting lessons from one of the high school boarding parents, and the lessons and studying take up enough time on top of all the juggling of handling 8 other family's kids. They get one day off a week, but I told them I'd be happy to go up and spend time with the kids so they can relax a little bit. I went up and read stories to the kids twice this week, which I really really loved, and then stayed afterwards to chat and play games with Giesela (the wife). That was also really nice, to just talk about nothing in particular and relax a little.
They say it won't snow again for a few days, but big storms are predicted for next week!
I hope you're all doing well!
We're almost half way through the term, and these past few weeks have probably been my best so far (teaching-wise). I've got a lot more self-confidence, which has made a huge difference.
We're rehearsing almost every day for the end-of-term play the Elementary kids are putting on, based on Max Lucado's book "You Are Special." One of Lucy's (my co-teacher's) friends in Australia wrote it, but she's had to do a lot of work to it to adapt it to our students in order to give everyone a speaking part. I'm in charge of sets and props, so most of my work will come in later. It's exciting to have something kind of outside of school to work on.
Also, after I taught the 7th graders some line dancing last term, one of the girls was interested in starting up a dance club. We've put up a sign up sheet, and we'll see if anyone is interested. That would also be a great distraction!
The Elementary house parents have been feeling really overwhelmed lately. This is their first year, and they came late because of their visas, so the kids had already had 3 interim house parents before they came. They're from Germany and don't speak English fluently. They're getting lessons from one of the high school boarding parents, and the lessons and studying take up enough time on top of all the juggling of handling 8 other family's kids. They get one day off a week, but I told them I'd be happy to go up and spend time with the kids so they can relax a little bit. I went up and read stories to the kids twice this week, which I really really loved, and then stayed afterwards to chat and play games with Giesela (the wife). That was also really nice, to just talk about nothing in particular and relax a little.
They say it won't snow again for a few days, but big storms are predicted for next week!
I hope you're all doing well!
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