First Days of School

alohaaaaa!

I feel like it's been a few days since i've updated this thing with useful info. A lot's been happening here!

I am really bummed that I forgot to bring my camera on Sunday night to the Aloha Welcome celebration thing-a-magig (is that how you spell that?) The event was an assembly of the whole campus (staff, students mission builders etc) as a kick off of the new quarter and a welcome to the new students. Anyway, Lorn Cunningham (founder of YWAM) spoke, and then introduced all 40 different nations which are represented here.
The funny thing is that he would call out the name of a nation, then a student would run down the aisle to the stage with the flag and then all the people who were from that country were supposed to run after them down the aisle, through the stage. It sounds stupid, and i felt a little stupid not gonna lie, but it was fun. S. Korea and the U.S obviously had the most people... it took a while for all of them to walk through. It's hard to describe what the atmosphere is like here with so many different nations represented. It's really just eye-opening I guess is the word, and amazing, specially when we all gather together with one purpose.

Monday was my first full day at foundation school, and man has that changed my life here! I actually get a whole extra half hour before I have to be at work :) and about an extra 15 minutes at the end of each day. In the end its about the same because I always spend that time doing work-related stuff. At any rate, the first 2 days were overwhelming and I'm glad I didn't write anything then because it just would've been a big downer. I just felt really lost... I was thrown into a classroom with kids of really different age groups and nothing was really explained to me about curriculum, etc.. Anyway, the first 2 days were rough, but I feel a LOT better now. The kids are getting used to the routine, and I've got a few strategies down :) THANK GOD FOR WORKING AT HARBORLIGHT! Man, has that helped. It's going to be great experience for me as a teacher, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the quarter. God has given me such a peace about the whole thing... I was stressed at first, but I am confident that i am there for a reason .

Anyway, I'm always missing everyone.... not sure if that means im in a constant state of homesickness or what. It's weird because it's NOT that i'm sad, or moping around missing my friends and family. It's just that now that I'm here I realize how fortunate I am to have such wonderful people in my life... and coming to that realization of course makes me miss all you wonderful people that are in my life.

But anyway, i'm still loving it here, and definitely not ready to come home yet :D