Two Compliments

I got two amazing compliments today totally without me fishing for them. We all like to be on the receiving end of compliments so it just makes your day go by some much better when you get one. First I was helping my student teacher get prepared for the day and another teacher came in to talk to me. I'm not sure how it came up, but the topic of being observed came up and the other teacher says that our mentor teacher always praises me. Whenever he talks the this teacher he suggests that he talk to me about some of the things I do in my class. I really didn't think my mentor teacher liked me that much, but I guess he does. Then tonight I was talking to another co-worker and he mentioned that another teacher had asked him who his favorite teacher in the school was and he sad ME. Crazy!!! I guess maybe I did pick the right profession after all.

Teacher Skit

This year I was asked to participate in the teacher skit performed during the homecoming assembly. We tossed around some different ideas, but we settled on the teachers "trying out" for the cheer leading squad. I'm not exactly sure how, but it turned into a boys v. girls thing, we thought the guys were going to cream us because they are guys. But when it came down to it, we creamed them, they didn't plan much and we practiced for two days. We had a funny cheer, a dance, and a stunt (of course it helped that we had the cheerleader coach on our team). All day Friday kids all around school were telling how funny it was and that I was the "best" cheerleader. I don't know if that is true, but it was fun either way

Faith in Mankind Restored...for the moment at least

This is Homecoming week at the school I work at. I love my job, I love my school, and I would do anything to help my school out. The last two nights I have been in charge of making sure the talents at the Homecoming Pageant were school appropriate. For the most part I didn't have to do much, there was a moment tonight that was a little scary, but I think it was alright. Normally these pageants are just glorified popularity contests, but tonight the most popular students didn't win, I was in shock. For example the Homecoming King was a kid I have never seen before, never heard his name, he had a great talent, and beat the two most popular football players to win. These football players are good kids for the most part, they are more talk than action. I figured they would be a little disappointed to lose to someone that was no where close to as popular as they are. But as I was walking out the school, I heard a group of guys singing along with a ukulele (we have a pretty big Polynesian population in my school so this was not the unusual part) backstage. As I was passing the door I could hear some lyrics and realized I knew the song, it then took me a second, but I realized that it was one of my favorite religious songs "O Lord, my Redeemer." I couldn't see who all was in the room, but I assume that these two football players were part of it since they were the only Polynesian guys in the pageant. I felt a little guilty, here I was thinking that they were going to be mad they lost to someone "beneath" them and they were seeing a beautiful song about Christ. I need to take a step back and learn a lesson from my students and think of Christ more in my life.

"Oh Lord, my Redeemer, Thou hast done so much for me! Oh Lord, my Redeemer, All my love I give to Thee."