Many of my family, friends,
and supporters are wondering what in the world is going on with me lately. I haven’t updated my facebook page in a
while, I haven’t posted anything on my blog in a while. I’m way behind on answering emails and
facebook messages.
I didn’t fall off the edge of
the world. I fell into teaching English
at Colegio Metodista (the Methodist School.)
Since mid January, I’ve been
teaching English three days a week to 140 students grades Pre-Kindergarten
through 5th Grade. It’s been
a wonderful roller coaster ride that has jolted me right back into my second
time around as a first-year teacher. Back
in early 2000s, I taught pre-k for 5 years and loved it! I had forgotten how difficult the first year
of teaching is…until now!
But today I heard my first
confirmation that all the effort is truly worthwhile as one of our 4 year old
students walked up to me on the playground and said, “hello!” After him followed almost all of his
classmates, repeating the same sweet, perfectly pronounced (Eastern NC style, of course!) and appropriately
used, “hello!”
If only you knew how many
fresh gray hairs I have from this group of 4-year-olds – you would fully
understand how my heart leaped as they greeted me in English! I thought I’d never accomplish anything with
this youngest group…and yet they are the precious souls God chose as messengers to tell me “chill out my child…they are learning while they wiggle all over the place!”
I’ll try to get some pictures
soon to share with you, but for now, HELLO will have to do!
