Stage 3 of Moving and the First Week of School

So when asked about how i was doing I told someone I was in the third stage of moving (like the five stages of grief). The third stage is utter loathing of cardboard boxes. (The others are, in order, excitement about moving, realization that you have only a week left to pack, the drudgery of furniture moving day, and finally acceptance.)

On a lighter note I have technically finished my first week of teaching! Its gong well and I'm seeming so far to be able to do my work at school so I don't have to take it home with me. The teachers and the Principal are pretty amazing and have given me some nice complements that they have heard from students (mostly that I'm going to make them work but that they really enjoy the class.) All my classes except one have a test on Friday, and the one that doesn't has already had two quizzes (they groan a lot but hey, its anatomy and physiology and there's a lot to learn.) This morning I led staff devotions where we prayed for one another and I'm leading worship for chapel this afternoon with another teacher here.

So that's all for my update but I'm working on an article about Worship and My Favorite Heretic (Nestorius who called himself the Hammer of the Heretics and ended up becoming one)

Peace to you all
Adam

Oy Vey!

So today I went by the school and picked up yet another box of books for my classes that I'm teaching. I'm now offically teaching Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, 2 Biology classes and the 8th grade boys Bible class. But i had a fantastic conversation to day which i will recount here.

"Well we're having breakfast and lunch for all the new teachers tommarow."

"Great what are we having?"

"Its a supprise"

"Well Im just asking cause I dont eat pork or dairy"

"Oh cause your..." she nods at me as if waiting for me to fill in the word. "You know, like Hebrew"

Any ways I thought it was pretty funny.

-A

New Adventures

So if you havent heard, my wifey and I are going to have a baby!

And we're moving out of our little barn into a much bigger barn.

And I start my first day of school on thursday.

So theres alot of change going on right now for us. The easiest change mentally to deal with is moving. I've been moving all my life. If I stay somewhere too long I have to move all the furniture completely arround just so it feels a little diffrent. I like the process of going through things, throwing out the junk, and keeping the sentamental and remmebering the stories that go along with all the little keep sakes.

And right now my wife is doing most of the work for the baby. Sure I do a few more things arround the house but shes the one "climbing mountains" as people keep telling us. But were looking foward to raising our children together and helping them to grow up strong and capible in the ways of our faith.

And school, well, its a small private school so in teaching science, I am the only high school science teacher. So my corses are probable changing today as they go over the schedule due to low enrollment in one of my classes and high enrollment in some others, but Im just rolling with the punches and excited about doing something a bit more fufilling than planning out tract home neighborhoods.

So just a quick update, and Im off to start the rest of my day; transcribing, packing, and lesson planning.