Recess

At Riverside this week we finally had a full class. Over the last few weeks we had been ravaged by ailments, one day we only had five kids. Now I know I’m not teaching a class of 100 however 15 feels significantly larger than 5 and I felt lonely. I thought that 5 people might open up more, I even tried sitting on the ground. I have now been teaching these kids for a month and a half, maybe two, and still no one answers any questions. Now for that month I taught I have used the same technique and not really gotten any interaction. So the class was full for the first time in weeks and I didn’t prepare as well as I should have, but it was about Joseph so I decided to retell the story in my own words while wearing a crazy poncho and referencing the Bible. For the first time, I had complete attention, questions were answered and thoughts were shared. It was great. I thank God for blessing that day. So the next time, I used the same strategy and it worked again. The kids are now excited to see me.

Recess is always tiring and leaves me exhausted for chapel. Last recess I was waiting my turn on the swing when a conversation with a kid turned to credit scores, somehow. He then proceeded to ask me how credit score worked. I handed him my keys picked up two pieces of bark and said that the keys cost three bark. Then I told him I only had two bark but with a credit card I could buy something that cost three bark when I only had two, but in a week I have to give the third bark. If I wait two weeks instead of a week then I get a bad score but if I pay it on time, I get a good score and if I have a really good score then with my two bark I can buy things that cost five bark. My explanation seemed to help him to understand, but how can one really be sure. An interesting note about the swings, George and I put them in the day before and we naturally had to test them for quality control, don’t you know. That is why I was in line for the swings.

In other news, the horses came back to terrorize our field again. Fortunately, Roger and I were going to the ball field and unlike the way I chased them with Cody, we chased them up the hill and screamed at them to scare them to their normal grazing grounds. I felt very odd chasing them to be honest, but it worked.

A couple things to pray for for me are that I could motivate myself easier and still the cooking aspect of life.