Provision and Chaos
Well, it's happened. I've gotten a job, and I've begun to neglect my blog. And you know what? Technically my job hasn't even started yet!
This past week has been completely full of textbooks, lesson plans, reading articles on teaching and classroom management, and basically obsessing and worrying over all things that are teaching. I'm a tad overwhelmed by how much work I have yet to do before the school year begins (August 22. That's twenty days, y'all.), but I'm super excited about having my own classroom and actually being a teacher again. I'm really hopeful that this year will be awesome.
And if it is super awesome, I think that my amazing friend Katie will have had a lot to do with that. Katie and I went to college together and had a lot of the same classes, thanks to having the same major. Our final semester we had every class together (All of us did, actually. It was super fun!), but when student teaching came around, we both moved back to our hometowns.
We've kept in touch, and when she found out that I got this teaching job, she surprised me with something HUGE. See, she's taught 8th grade Science for the past 2 years, but will not be returning. She really wanted to give someone all her supplies and resources because she wouldn't be needing them anymore, and she chose to give them to me! I'm not even exaggerating when I say it took the entire back end of my parents' minivan to hold all the stuff she gave me (this is a very good thing, by the way...classrooms are not easy to decorate and stock with supplies!). I'm talking supplies, posters, games, lab materials, lesson plans, power points, organizational things...the whole shebang.
I know. Amazing!
Like my job, it was completely unexpected and such a blessing. The Lord totally answered our prayers for provision as we continue to try to get back on our own feet. So thanks, Katie, for being an amazingly kind and generous friend!
Like I said, I'm really looking forward to this coming school year. But I'd better get back to work - I've still got a million things to do!
This past week has been completely full of textbooks, lesson plans, reading articles on teaching and classroom management, and basically obsessing and worrying over all things that are teaching. I'm a tad overwhelmed by how much work I have yet to do before the school year begins (August 22. That's twenty days, y'all.), but I'm super excited about having my own classroom and actually being a teacher again. I'm really hopeful that this year will be awesome.
And if it is super awesome, I think that my amazing friend Katie will have had a lot to do with that. Katie and I went to college together and had a lot of the same classes, thanks to having the same major. Our final semester we had every class together (All of us did, actually. It was super fun!), but when student teaching came around, we both moved back to our hometowns.
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| Here's Katie and I just after graduation! We got bored during the ceremony that lasted 5.72 days and sat there talking the whole time. |
We've kept in touch, and when she found out that I got this teaching job, she surprised me with something HUGE. See, she's taught 8th grade Science for the past 2 years, but will not be returning. She really wanted to give someone all her supplies and resources because she wouldn't be needing them anymore, and she chose to give them to me! I'm not even exaggerating when I say it took the entire back end of my parents' minivan to hold all the stuff she gave me (this is a very good thing, by the way...classrooms are not easy to decorate and stock with supplies!). I'm talking supplies, posters, games, lab materials, lesson plans, power points, organizational things...the whole shebang.
I know. Amazing!
Like my job, it was completely unexpected and such a blessing. The Lord totally answered our prayers for provision as we continue to try to get back on our own feet. So thanks, Katie, for being an amazingly kind and generous friend!
Like I said, I'm really looking forward to this coming school year. But I'd better get back to work - I've still got a million things to do!
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