Discipline

Sometimes I feel like I'm here to discipline kids, not necessarily to teach them. It's definitely very very difficult to teach when I always have to discipline first. This past week was by far the most diffcult in terms of discipline. I handed out 5 or 6 punishment assignments, one detention, and got in 2 or 3 arguments about punishments with students, my weeks ended with giving a detention to one of my students name Carlos who proceeded to yell and argue with me for 5 minutes about how it wasn't fair that he got a detention. I will be glad when this initial period of disicpline is over, and the students know what I expect in class. But by the end of this week I was beginning to question why I was here, which I've come to find that whenever I begin to ask that question, it means that I'm in over my head, and I have no choice but to rely on God's power, Word, and prayer to sustain me.

I got my stitches out on Wednesday, my cut is healing up pretty nicely, there was never too much pain, which was nice (except for the 2 tetanus shots I got).
This week is a shortened week, because of a teacher convention we have this Friday, so that should be very interesting. I went to a really cool restaurant on Friday night called "La Creperia" where they have Crepes of all different kinds, and dessert crepes, which are really really good. So that was fun, but besides that, I've been doing some grading and other reading this weekend, so pretty low key. Please keep praying that I would continue to grow closer to the Lord, and that He would help me through these difficult times, to accomplish His purposes, for His glory.