Done with the first week

So that's it!!! The first week is over and I'm kinda feeling like a normal teacher all of the sudden. I know that I have a ton to work on still, but I'm starting to really enjoy teaching. Especially to those classes that will actually listen to me, which is most of them at this point. I've had a few discipline problems, but nothing too serious, Carlos is no longer a problem, in fact we are getting along pretty well, after I gave him 2 demerits (3 = a detention) and gave him a punishment assignment.

It was interesting, the first few days, everytime I walked into the 11th and 10th grade classrooms, I immediately felt threatened and I put on my discipline/no messing around face and tried not to give in. Everytime I walked in, I felt like most kids were trying to get away with anything they could by messing with me, especially since I don't even know all the rules yet! I'm not going into defensive mode anymore when I enter the classroom.

My first lecture on the Bible introduced the importance and the power of the Bible. It was very good for the kids and I think very eye opening as well, I know it was a great reminder for myself. I was caught in a jam today in philosophy when I realized that I didn't know how to explain a hypothetical argument for explaining how logic works. Fortunately I took good notes that I had with me, and saved some notes from Moody on it. After about 5-10 minutes of scrambling and trying to find a good example of how to explain the concept, I finally just throughly read my notes again for about a minute and then the Lord opened my mind somehow and I explained 2 different examples.

I've been so challenged this week to not let how my students treat me or act towards me control my actions or my attitude in general and towards them. My value must not be in how they treat me, or if they respect me, but it must be in Jesus Christ, who he is, how he thinks of me, and what he had done for me. This is what should control my behavior. Anyways, I can tell that that will be a struggle for the rest of the year, but I look forward to the challenge.

Oh, and Drew Hunter would appreciate this... I listened to a Scott Hafemann sermon the other night on the armor of God in Ephesians 6 and it was absolutely amazing, I have to get some more of his sermons. After I listen to that sermon one more time cause it was so good.

Anyways, I don't think I'm doing the waterfall thing this weekend, but I might be going downtown which will be nice, I really don't go outside of my apartment and school that much. Right now I feel like what I'm doing is primarily a teaching position that just so happens to be in Honduras, heavy emphasis on the teaching part, (I never knew teachers could have so much homework, I thought I was done with that!) Haven't seen too many sites yet, but when we get days off of school, we will probably go to some sweet places. Thanks again for your prayers. Oh, and I think I'm going to help coach the soccer team which will be really cool, practices start in October and they are only on Saturdays, so that's not that big of a committment. Anyone who wants to get on skype so we can catch up would be awesome, my name is "millerjon."