First grade PE

Well, I'm now a pe teacher! I had the first day of first grade pe today, and it was interesting. I know next week will be better because I'll actually get there on time, and hopefully it won't be raining. The scheduling problem I have is that I'm teaching 6th grade music until 1:50 and 1st grade pe starts at 1:45. Today we had the 1st grade wait with their teacher, but starting next week, Mr. Ruiz will stay with 6th grade and I will leave a little early to get 1st grade. Hopefully that will fix things. My schedule this year has been so crazy, but I guess I'll never be bored.


I know there's tons of things I keep wanting to write about, but when I can get to the computer I can never remember them. So instead, here's a list of things I'm thankful for right now

1. God's sovereignty
2. This beautiful island
3. The incredible Puerto Rican people
4. The opportunities I have had to learn and practice Spanish
5. The clear and unmistakable way the Lord has led in my life
6. Good friends...God has given me so many
7. My car!
8. My phone (even though the battery has problems)
9. My second year of teaching-what a huge difference to already know people and procedures. I am loving my job more and more.
10. PE-I get to run around and play with first graders (all of their teachers have asked me to be sure to make them very tired)
11. Computers and the internet
12. Many lessons the Lord taught me this summer
13. My dad's health
14. My little brother who wrote me a letter saying, "I miss you so much, I love you."
15. My brother who's going to college next week
16. My sister whose volleyball games I'm missing =(
17. My brother who is a sports nut (wait, isn't that all of them? but I think this one is crazier than the rest)
18. My brother who just started Jr High
19. My sister who is a great artist, and really hilarious if you listen long enough and see her when she doesn't know you're watching
20. My little sister with such a tender heart she cried watching Ronald Reagan's funeral (she was 4), cried the whole way through another sister's wedding ceremony, and went to see Dad one morning at school crying because she was worried about him (he just had surgery to remove a skin cancer)
21. My little sister who is the youngest of 10 with tons of energy and an adorable smile
22. My sister who just got married-we can have entire paragraphs of conversation in our heads while only saying individual words (it was so fun to confuse her boyfriend before they got married)
23. My mom who's really funny and smart

A new year

This will be a quick one. I taught my first class of the year today. This year's 5th grade class has such a different spirit from last years class. I think I'm really going to enjoy them. This morning I helped get children out of cars and enjoyed watching the traffic jam (I say enjoyed because I wasn't involved in the traffic) that the parents of the students created. I'm still amazed at how "easily" we get 600 students into the school in the mornings. The rest of today will be taken up trying to figure out my schedule. So far I have 35 piano students signed up, am in the classroom 7 hours a week, chapel 3 hours a week, with a possible 3 hours of PE, but we'll have to wait and see on the PE. I'm wondering how many different versions of the schedule I'll have to make before it finally works. That's all I have time for right now. Sometime soon I have to post pictures of my "new to me" car so my mom can see what it looks like.