Love Life!...Love the Possibilities!
You, Whose Day It Is,
Get Out Your Rainbow
Colors and Make It
Beautiful !
-Traditional Nootka Song
I LOVE the first week of a new school year, a week brimming over with new students, new questions, new beginnings, and new possibilities.
Every first week is "different" and has its own complexities. This one was no exception.
I love the diversity of my students! I have a class with four basketball players sitting across from a tatooed, pierced creative student, with a huge heart. He has green dreadlocks and from time to time wears a skirt. Watching the eyes of the basketball players look at him, and they know I'm watching them, is why I am at SCC! They are all God's children and if they can learn to appreciate each other's differences in my class, that may translate to being more tolerant and loving in the world outside my class!
Most of the week I ran like a chicken with my head cut off. And I do mean run!! Yet the running felt satisfying and made me chuckle! I kept thinking, and saying outloud..."This is the BEST job in the world!" And I mean it!
Here Are A Few Things I Loved About This Week:
*I loved seeing former students (some of whom I have again) and giving them a hug!
*I loved that most students could not believe that I am 61. Several even argued with me. I don't fit their stereotype of an "older person"!
*I loved welcoming students who were scared and alone.
*I loved seeing my favorite colleagues get out there and do their thing.
*I loved starting new units that I knew would change students' lives!
*I loved having clothes to wear at the start of school that are two sizes smaller than what I was wearing last year!
*I love being in shape mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually so I can give 110% every day to my students!
*I love learning all of their names so that I can greet them and recognize them in the hall!
*I love that my classes are brimming full and that there is only room to sit on the floor!
*I love that I am way more organized at the start of this school year than I was last year!
*I love that God has called me to do His work in a classroom, and that He has entrusted me with these precious people!
This first week, like any week, was full of new possibilities! Today is full of new possibilities too!
And as the Nootka song suggests...Today is my day..and I am getting out my rainbow colors and making it beautiful!!
I am so, so blessed, and I am so, so grateful! I'm living every day as if it was my last!
God Bless!
Love Linda
You, Whose Day It Is,
Get Out Your Rainbow
Colors and Make It
Beautiful !
-Traditional Nootka Song
I LOVE the first week of a new school year, a week brimming over with new students, new questions, new beginnings, and new possibilities.
Every first week is "different" and has its own complexities. This one was no exception.
I love the diversity of my students! I have a class with four basketball players sitting across from a tatooed, pierced creative student, with a huge heart. He has green dreadlocks and from time to time wears a skirt. Watching the eyes of the basketball players look at him, and they know I'm watching them, is why I am at SCC! They are all God's children and if they can learn to appreciate each other's differences in my class, that may translate to being more tolerant and loving in the world outside my class!
Most of the week I ran like a chicken with my head cut off. And I do mean run!! Yet the running felt satisfying and made me chuckle! I kept thinking, and saying outloud..."This is the BEST job in the world!" And I mean it!
Here Are A Few Things I Loved About This Week:
*I loved seeing former students (some of whom I have again) and giving them a hug!
*I loved that most students could not believe that I am 61. Several even argued with me. I don't fit their stereotype of an "older person"!
*I loved welcoming students who were scared and alone.
*I loved seeing my favorite colleagues get out there and do their thing.
*I loved starting new units that I knew would change students' lives!
*I loved having clothes to wear at the start of school that are two sizes smaller than what I was wearing last year!
*I love being in shape mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually so I can give 110% every day to my students!
*I love learning all of their names so that I can greet them and recognize them in the hall!
*I love that my classes are brimming full and that there is only room to sit on the floor!
*I love that I am way more organized at the start of this school year than I was last year!
*I love that God has called me to do His work in a classroom, and that He has entrusted me with these precious people!
This first week, like any week, was full of new possibilities! Today is full of new possibilities too!
And as the Nootka song suggests...Today is my day..and I am getting out my rainbow colors and making it beautiful!!
I am so, so blessed, and I am so, so grateful! I'm living every day as if it was my last!
God Bless!
Love Linda
2 comments:
Sounds like a great first week! I'm glad that you felt energized and ready to start the quarter. I pray that your students will have ears to hear and eyes to see Jesus through you.
I love you.
XOXO, me
I love you, Mom. Your students are so blessed to have you as their teacher and mentor. XOXO
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