happy new year!

oops.

life got a little crazy, and i kinda forgot about the blog. i guess i'm not exactly cut out for the whole blogging experience.

okay, well, pretty much everything in my life since i last wrote has revolved around school. it's been a pretty awesome semester for the most part. hard, but lots of fun. had a couple of incidents. caught students cheating, had to write one student the detention that got him expelled, but for the most part it has been a very productive, very fun year.

i love my job.

let's see, what else happened since i last wrote?...my dad was released from the hospital after about a week. he's home now, obviously. he was doing better, but he seems to have caught a cold recently and isn't doing so hot. my sister got her class ring in. little tyke grows up so fast. i got my wisdom teeth pulled the 23rd. i miss meat. like, for real.

our church: some other churches in our fellowship have gotten together and are trying to finish off work on our church. it should be done fairly quickly, actually. and they're doing it all on their dime. so, hopefully, before long, i'll be posting pictures of our newly finished (much improved) church building. it's amazing how God blesses!

if you think about it, two older ladies in our church are very ill and not expected to make it much longer. they are both very sweet, Christian ladies and have lived full lives. if you think about it, pray for their families and friends and that these ladies won't be in too much pain in their final hours. they've been around here forever and their presence will be greatly missed. they are mrs. edith enbey and mrs. evelyn hammonds.

i will leave you with a glimpse at four of my five classes. scheduling conflicts made it so i didn't get a picture of one big class before break. :( also, the pictures are small and lo-res. for legal reasons, i'm sure you can understand, i can't put much up about them. their pretty sweet kids though. i have around 65 students when all is said and done.

my 7th grade bible class

one of my 8th grade algebra classes

the other of my 8th grade algebra classes.
these kids are characters...

my smaller 9th grade algebra class.
the other one has 20 students in it; it's a shame i didn't get their picture.

well, i hope you had a merry christmas and you have a very happy new year!

happy july 4th!

ok, so it's been a while. not much has been going on until this last week. we spent a week and a half redoing my sister's room, so it's totally different colors now, the furniture's in different places, and i think when all was said and done we took out around 10 of those huge black garbage bags -- the ones for like leaves and stuff -- around 10 of those full of trash were thrown out. not to mention a huge amount of stuff went downstairs into storage -- stuff she's had but hasn't seen since we moved in six, almost seven years ago. so we did that. i've been working on stuff for the church, like the youth room and the church's web site (which by the way is all new and you should check it out, even if you're nowhere near the area and will probably never stop by -- biblebaptistgalveston.org) and some other stuff.

anyhoo, wednesday i got a call from my employer that they were having their summer math tutoring thing and they had more kids than usual and the teacher running it needed help. so he asked if i'd be available to help thursday and next week. well, i could help thursday, but i can't next week (because i'll be out of town; i'll explain later), which he thought was great, because i apparently i was the first person he thought of, which i was flattered by until i started thinking, "did he think of me because he thinks i'd be a good choice, or because he thinks i need tutoring?..." so anyway, thursday! i had so much fun! i didn't actually teach any of the lessons; we split them up and she would teach the lessons and i'd help the kids on the work they were doing on the lessons they just learned. it was so awesome, and it made me so excited for the fall! yay!

actually, it makes me a little sad that i can't help this coming week. she definitely needs the help, and i had a lot of fun and could use the experience. but i can't because this week comes -- drumroll please -- the long awaited vacation! yup, early tuesday morning we're leaving this hotter-than-hades-island and going up to branson, mo for vacation! my mom and i are very excited. plus we get to see some old family and friends while we're up there that we haven't seen in a while. it's exciting. we're gonna relax and shop and see a few night shows and go to silver dollar city a few days and, most importantly, i'm not gonna think about everything i have to do before the school year starts when i get back. speaking of, i'm in desparate need of a car and i have no money. please pray for me. my parents my be able to help me out, but that's kind of a last resort kind of option. so, please pray that i can find a car that runs well and is not expensive and that dealership will let me finance out payment on. kinda that vicious cycle -- need the car for the job but won't have the steady income for the car until i start the job...

anyhoo, i hope you have a fantastic fourth! i plan to read some. which is what i've been doing in my free time (i've never denied that i'm a nerd), but my mom thinks that if i keep reading like i've been i won't have any books left for vacation. so, she stole my books!! the theif. i'm going after them later...call it operation: bookworm. wish me luck... :)