We survived the hurricane! Isaac definitely made an appearance in Hazlehurst. One that caused a 2-day hurrication from school, power outages across town, several downed trees, huge puddles, and one sleepless night for this girl. I think the April 27th tornadoes/wind that knocked down trees all over Berry made me paranoid of trees falling. I didn't sleep but like 45 minutes on Wednesday evening (on the bathroom floor none-the-less) due to all of the debris hitting the house from every direction! Praise the Lord we had no leaks or fallen trees. Just lots of branches and limbs around the yard that we will eventually pick up if it ever stops raining! As scary as the whole hurricane experience was, it was SO nice to have a little weekend in the middle of the week! And it was even nicer to go back for Friday and then have a three day weekend!
But wait, it gets even better! Not only do we have a three day weekend for Labor Day, we also got paid on Thursday! Again, PRAISE THE LORD! Angie and I went grocery shopping today and it was so nice to be able to buy real food instead of whatever $20 would buy us. We are looking forward to a day of shopping on Monday to hit up all the big Labor Day sales and reward ourselves for a challenging first month of teaching. Don't worry, I already made my budget so nothing too extreme for me! Many of the things I plan on purchasing this weekend are for the wedding next weekend! I am thrilled to get to be apart of Taylor Andrews and Josh Hines big day in just 7 days! Not only will I only have a three day week because of it but I also get to see my best friends that I grew up with. Since we started college, the time that Taylor, Becky, Chelcie, and I have had together has been very limited so I am super excited to spend two days with them! (One more reason to celebrate next weekend- Becky just got engaged this weekend as well! Three down...I'm the only one to go!! HA) Since I'm already going to be in Birmingham, might as well drive the extra two hours home for some much needed family and Berry time. If you cannot tell, I am VERY excited about next weekend and all of the tiresome fun that it will entail.
Before then though, I have three days of teaching and giving my all to my students. During the hurricane, I was able to get ahead on some lesson planning and I am finally getting to the point where I actually feel like I know what I am doing. We are getting into a regular schedule now that we have our reading curriculum and I have already seen improvements both in the quality of my students work as well as in their behaviors. I'll finish this very excited and joyous post with something one of my students wrote on her science test this week:
Question: If you have a seed, what do you need to do to turn it into a plant?
Student's Answer: "I will have to give it soil, sunlight, water and air. And I will give it some plant food to make it grow into a beautiful flower and people will take pictures and ask me how to plant a flower!"
Some days, I want to come home and cry or pack up and get out of here but then I am reminded of precious things like this that my students do and say and am reminded of the reason I am here. Happy Labor Day everyone! Can't wait to update you on the exciting wedding/Rome weekend!
Every day there will be a challenge, but look for those small successes, and know you are making a difference. Galatians 6:9
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you have more than $20 to spend at the store too...don't look for those Andrew Jackson's in the mail now that you are getting paid.
Love you, Mom