The Week

So this week was very short. Wednesday morning there was a taxi strike, I'm not sure all the details or even how it worked. All I know is that they got their issues resolved and we did not have school because of it. I guess this is our version of snow days, since I think its only ever snowed here one time in the last 100 years or something.

I was having severe respect issues with one specific student this week, he was arguing with me alot and didn't seem to understand why I punish him more than everyone else. Simply because he disrespects me more than everyone else. So I'm gonna have to suspend him on Monday. Other than that the week went pretty well.

Today was report card day, that means that the students have a day off of school and the parents come in to get their children's grades. First of all they have to make sure that their payments are up to date for the private school, then their children's grades are given, and finally they talk to any teacher that they need to talk to about their children. So I was sitting in a room with other parents whose children were doing poorly or failing for the most part, from 8 AM until 2 PM in the same seat. Most of the parents were understanding, I had one parent who told me that her son said that my class needs to be more fun and dynamic, putting the blame on me for his bad grade, but that was really the only parent out of about 40 or 50 that didn't seem to cooperate as much.

Tonight, I'm back to soccer, but I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to be able to play because I'm having some tendonitis in my knee flare up again because its starting to get pretty cold. Last night I went to play volleyball up at Acedmia los Pinares on top of a mountain, it's always much colder up there, and my knee hurt so much I could barely walk, but today has been much better.

Please continue to pray that I would be relying on God more and more everyday for His strength, power, and grace, to work through me and be clearly communicated to my students.

There was an earthquake here about a month and a half ago, and I felt it just a little bit, but apparently it wrecked a whole town, so tommorrow I'm going to a village to help give them clothes and supplies, so that should be really cool. And only 2 more weeks until thanksgiving, time is really flying.

Thanks so much for your prayers