And then some

I'm never really sure if people are most interested in hearing a rundown of literal events I have experienced or the way in which they have effected me in this blog. I lean towards the first, simply because I tend to internalize any lessons (if indeed I do learn anything haha) from a given event, and share only the hard concrete facts. I realize this is not always the case, it is just what I prefer to do lately. Meh. I suppose I'll list off things that have happened, then attempt to describe what they mean to me.

Had some bad days of teaching in which I had to make the kids suffer a little.
My truck died.
Went for a run, which I intend to make a habit of.
Had a big storm.
Had our first SM fight, and made up haha
I have been painting.
Went exploring.
Read a book.

HAD SOME BAD DAYS
Some days go really good. The kids listen, the exercises and sports go well, nobody ends up crying or bleeding, and it's great. Other days, not so much. We had rain here for a few days. And when I say rain, I mean RAIN. So Monday, when PE time for the upper graders came, it was only raining a little bit, so I took em out. This proved to be a bad idea. We did our warm up exercises in the rain, and when it started getting worse we went inside. Problem was, I didn't have much indoor PE things to do. So I had 30 5-10th graders who were hyper in a lunchroom next to two classrooms. Before the period was over, they were yelling, I was yelling, and then they had their heads down like little kids. All in all not the best outcome. But things like that keep me from getting smug about myself, because overall it's really awesome and things go smoothly. Today in fact went amazingly well, nd time went by so fast we were outside an extra 5 or 10 minutes before I realized the period was over! haha. The kids didn't mind :p

TRUCK DIED
Yep. My steed perished. Or in biblical terms, it is sleeping. lol. I went to pick up my laundry the other morning and after stopping at an ATM, it wouldn't start again. So I had to walk to get my laundry, and walk back home. Not FTW. However, this is what inspired me to start running in the mornings. I had thought about it before, but after actually traveling the distance out of necessity, it seemed like more of a realistic goal and so I just did it.

WENT FOR A RUN
The second day (today) was much worse than the first day hahaha There's something about that first time that gives you energy, the feeling of "Oh yea I'm running I'm awesome" then this morning the feeling was more like "I am much older and out of shape than I thought I was!". It's all good though, after I actually got up and did it the feeling of accomplishment came back and superceded the feeling of death and dying.

STORM
It rained for only a few hours and the water was almost a foot deep in places. Epic.

FIRST SM FIGHT
The inevitable finally occurred, as I'm sure it will again before we leave. But we all have a better understanding of each other now. It's good to be mad at people sometimes, because it gives you a chance to get out the things that we sometimes keep inside that really should be outside.

PAINTING
I should share that my job title has been added to apparently hahaha PE teacher AND general maintenance dooer XD... I seem to have become the go to guy for repairs on buildings, anything that needs painted, computer fixings (with Mr. Odyiar), etc etc. I'm glad to have had two men teach me to do a good job (Jack/ Mr. Collett). The guy before me apparently was a bad worker, because the other day I did a project in a few hours what I was told took him days haha. Mmm.

WENT EXPLORING
WE drove around the other day and found Wing Beach. The beaches here are all an adventure, because you can never really find good directions so you always have to kind of ...find them. Through the boonies. There are a few easy ones, but the other day we wound up in someones field. Sooo...

READ A BOOK
Island of the Blue Dolphins. It's a childrens book I know i know, but it was good. I enjoyed it. You should read it too.

All in all, I keep being reminded of how fortunate I am to be here. I feel alive, like I am doing something that is helping make the world a better place. I thank God for bringing me here, and even for removing the distractions that kept me away; hard as it was to let them go.