Hello friends, family, and strangers (I flatter myself)! I am a recently-graduated girl finding my way in the "real world" (apparently, I've been floating around the fake world for the past two decades). Many of my friends' "real world"s consist of cubicles, nine-to-fives, marriage, babies, and other such grown-up things. My real world looks a little different. Yes, I still get up and go to work every morning, same as they do. But instead of battling fax machines, computer programs, disgruntled spouses and dirty diapers, I arm myself against a legion of 14-year-old boys. Well, 83 of them to be exact. You see, I teach 8th-grade boys' Science in an inner-city, high-poverty school. What it is not: glamorous, prestigious, boring. What it is: humorous, heartbreaking, and the most challenging thing I will ever do.

The stories I tell and the people I describe are real; you can't make this stuff up. If you are new to my blog, I hope you'll start at the beginning and fall in love with its characters, just as I have.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Prayer, Please!

Just as my resolve is fading, my hope is waning, my strength is failing me, it shines forth on the horizon:

SPRING BREAK.

Yes, I still get to go on those. Just one of the many perks that come with being a teacher! That and the exciting opportunity to mold young lives everyday!!! It makes me leap out of bed every morning with a smile on my face!!

No, but seriously. Will that be your prayer for me--that that will actually come to be true? Also, the EOG comes up in a little over a month. That is basically the state science test that all 8th graders must pass in order to move up to high school, and it is extremely difficult. Considering that my students can't formulate a complete sentence (and if they do it looks like they wrote it with their feet), that. terrifies. me. Honestly, nothing short of a miracle will get them out of that alive so please, dear friends, pray for just that. On a self-centered note, it is my job to prepare my kids for this test, and I am "graded" on their scores as well. Yikes.

Yikes is a very white-person thing to say.

Thank you so much for all of you who read and pray and keep up with me--even those whom I haven't met. The comments and encouragement you leave here mean more than you know.
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2 comments:

  1. SusanMarch 23, 2010 at 7:08 AM

    I am praying for you, friend! And all your precious kiddies. Seriously. Love you!!!

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  2. LindseyMarch 24, 2010 at 2:05 PM

    Not a day goest by that you aren't prayed for!

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