Happenings

I can't believe it's been so long since I've written........or maybe I can believe it. I spent all summer at home (which should be no excuse, but I spent most of my computer time on Facebook) and since I've been back I've been super busy.
So, for a quick run down of what's going on, here ya go.
I'm teaching 4th grade music, 6th grade music, 7th grade composing, 8th grade guitar, High school girls PE, piano lessons, playing for HS, church and college choir, scheduling all the church music (which is a challenge since we lost several people this year who were very involved in the music program) and next semester will add music appreciation.
Honestly, I was not looking forward to teaching high school, but the Lord has really been doing a work in our teens, and it has been exciting to see the changes in hearts and lives since this school year has started. Several of them went to camp this summer, and were really impacted by what they heard and learned, and they have not just been talking about the decisions they've made, but we're all seeing the evidence. Very exciting!
So, it's been busy, but I'm enjoying things. I'm teaching more middle school this year, which definitely brings its challenges, but they're also a lot more fun, even when they give me way too much information, which is pretty often. =)
I'm sure there's other things to write, but right now the headache is obscuring them, so I'll save them for later after I leave you with this quote (ok, it's more of a story than a quote):

Jasmine had been gone from school for a few days, and when she came back, on the way to PE she was telling me that she didn't think she could do all the running, that her strength ran out at three laps, that she was gonna fall over and die, etc, etc. Since we really had only been doing 2 laps around the bball court (which we started while she was gone) I wasn't quite sure what she was talking about. Turns out the other girls told her that we ran 12 laps every class.......and she believed them!! I was definitely amused, and I'm still not sure why she believed them.

And for those who are wondering, no, I haven't drowned from all the rain we've been getting. Basically the set of storms that's projected to become a tropical depression and eventually be named Kyle has been forming over our heads this weekend. The governor's trying to get the south of PR (that received 24" of rain in 24 hours) to be declared in a state of emergency so they can get federal funding. In the south (I'm in the north) apparently many houses and businessess were affected, as well as the plantain and coffee crops. All we've gotten on this end of things is a bunch of rain.

And one more thing that I almost forgot-last Sunday I (along with some friends) narrowly, or not so narrowly according to some counts, escaped being hit TWICE by lightning. We headed to Walmart after church, because my campus daughter needed to pick up some money being sent to her by money gram. As we left the church, it started to rain a little, but with in a couple of minutes, we found an area where it had stopped raining. Eventually we ran into rain again, and as we sat a a stop light, we began to see lightning, and instantaneously hear the thunder along with it. One of them struck extremely close, and I thought it hit the traffic light in front of us. I found out later from the girls in the car with me, that they actually saw sparks from my car. How I could miss the car being hit by lightning I'm not sure, but they were quite sure they saw sparks in the area where the antenna connects to the car. Not 30 seconds later, the electrical pole next to the traffic light behind us was hit by lightning, and this time, all the traffic lights went out, and a cloud of orange smoke rose from the pole that was hit. We got to Walmart as quickly as possible after that, and after I had dropped the girls off and found a parking space, I was walking through the parking lot (which at some points had ankle deep water) to get inside when another bolt of lightning struck close and loud enough that it set off several car alarms in the parking lot. And believe it or not, when we left Walmart, the sun was shining, the sky was almost clear, and it was getting hot!