First Real day of Class

Well, today was my first real day of class, friday was just an orientation and monday was a big protest that blocked roads and kept people from driving in the city. I never saw any though, just some guy coming down the street trying to sell brooms and mops. Today was a drastic improvement from Friday! Which was a huge relief for me, I was well prepared for all of my classes and was really enjoying teaching for the most part. I didn't get to any teaching in my Bible classes, but I got to introduce Sociology and Philosophy to the kids, which was fun.

Last summer when I was doing my internship at my church in Maryland, it was drawn to my attention...immediately.... that I move alot when I speak in front of people. After a whole summer of working on it, and threats from the pastoral staff to nail my feet to the ground (just kidding), I finally felt like I got it under control. But today I busted loose and moved around the whole day in every class. Which I think is very beneficial for a middle and high school teacher, because it keeps them on their tows.

Thanks so much for all of your prayers again. I know that this year is going to challenge me far more than I've ever been challenged before, but it is very encouraging to be able to rely on God's sovereignty and faithfulness.

I'm going to introduce all of my Bible classes with a lecture concerning the absolute authority, power, and sufficiency of Scripture. I'm very excited about it. I just wish that each class had more periods to teach Bible for each grade.

I'm actually teaching the most students out of any teacher in the whole school. Because Bible is only 2 days a week and not 3 or 5 days a week, I'm teaching Bible for 5 different grades, which makes things challenging as well, coming up with lesson plans for that many different class, plus adding Sociology and Philosophy into the mix, which are 3 day classes.
I'm going to try to write a few more posts to tell about about my normal life and events that go on here.

This weekend we might be going to a waterfall about 3 hours outside of the capital, I'm really excited about that, I'll definitely take some pictures, in the meantime, I'll show a few pictures of my classroom and some decorations I had to put up, (I'm not a good decorater at all). It was very time consuming and very hard!!

On a side note, Psalm 100:3 was a great reminder to me today, to know the the Lord is God, and that He is the one who made me, I did not make myself, as much as I want to think that, and as much as I forget God, and I'm His possession for his use, because of his free choice and for his glory, I have the privilege of living in relationship with Jesus, and he will watch over me just like a shepherd does his flock.