August Update

Once again I need to apologize for not updating my blogger often enough.

Matt and I have been back in country for about three weeks now. Our first week back we taught the little kids at our church's VBS and we went to school a few times to prep our classrooms before orientation. We began working August 10 and the students started back Wednesday.

As you may know, a lot of our teachers (if not all of us) have more responsibilities than we would normally have due to being short staffed. Most of us are teaching an extra class or two. I have picked up a history class that I proctor. Matt is now teaching three ELD classes, 7th and 8th grade English, and 7th and 8th grade Computer and PE. He's basically teaching two and a half teacher's jobs. There are quite a few demands on us this year so please pray for time management and sanity :0) for us this year.

Volleyball practice starts Monday. Our 6th grade teacher, Bethany, has decided to volunteer her time to be my assistant coach this season. This is the first time that I've been a head coach of anything. It's very humbling- especially because I have to ask A LOT of questions.

Speaking of humbling situations. I decided to retake the Praxis II this summer. When I was hired to come to Korea, I hadn't passed the test yet and I didn't need to, to be able to work at my school. I prayed about it quite a bit and decided that it was time for me to retake it again this summer. I dedicated most of my summer vacation studying for that test. It was humbling because this test is something I should have passed five years ago. But honestly, it was my teaching experience that really helped me with taking it this time. There were questions on there that I never would have known had I not taught it before. Anyway, to end the suspense- I got my score on Thursday night and my score is high enough for me to get a license in any state that requires that test. It is still easiest at this point for me to get an Ohio license- but my score was significantly higher than what was required of me. That's a huge PTL for that!

Our intent forms for the 2010-2011 school year are due at the end of November. Please pray for us as we finalize our decision for that.

Until next time...