Just learning the new curriculum and being ready to teach from it has been huge. The spelling curriculum and grammar curriculum are really very rigorous... plus being prepared to teach Bible (the students always have excellent questions so I need to make sure I'm as ready as possible), immersing myself into ancient Egypt for the history curriculum (which is fascinating but time-consuming), figuring out how to incorporate the geography with history and add on the other skills, science and finding time for it and how to make it interactive (the students just have workbooks... no textbooks), and the math curriculum is brand new to the school, which means we are meeting about it, talking it over, and spending a lot of time preparing to teach it. But I love it. I love learning all of these new things and really gaining more of an appreciation for the world God has created and placed me in. It truly is awe-inspiring to study these things and then exhilarating to turn around and teach them to a group of children!
But I haven't just been learning about the school and the curriculum. I've also been learning about the geography of Washington, specifically of Seattle. I've been amazed to realize that I have already started to get my bearings as far as where things are and in which general direction I need to go to get places. Now don't get me wrong, the street names are still EXTREMELY confusing! They all seem to be numbers with directions tacked on the beginning and end. Apparently that means something but I haven't figured that out yet. You can have a 128th St. N, and NE 128th St, and a NE 128th Pl. all meet in one intersection... talk about confusing! But overall, I feel like I'm getting the hang of where things are at and where the major Washington landmarks are located.
I think I'm finally starting to remember more names at church. It's really is difficult when I only see them once a week. I'm thankful for a ladies fellowship that one of the teachers invited me to with ladies from her church. We'll be reading through a book. And the ladies at my church are starting a monthly get together as well with talk of starting a Bible study as well. I'm so thankful. I have just been so hungry for good Christian fellowship where we are able to be a part of each other's lives and to spend time speaking truth into one another's lives. Sunday's are good for the beginnings of that, but Christian fellowship is meant to go so much further than the door of the church!
(To be continued)
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