Teaching Update

School is going really well! I just finished teaching the 3rd week and I absolutely love it! I use to say that 5th grade was my favorite grade, but I have completely fell in love with 3rd!!! I think I could teach 3rd grade the rest of my teaching career! I have 15 students, 10 girls and 5 boys, and they are wonderful! I love all of them! Everyone is upbeat and positive at North, totally different than public schools. All of the teachers are ladies which is really neat. We have a devotional together every Tuesday and I feel that I have already made really stong relationships with several of the ladies! I love it!!!! I have some classroom pets: 3 hamsters and 1 Beta fish. The hamsters are Wilma, Betty, and Chuncky and the fish is Fred. I bought Wilma and Betty and a student bought Chunky. I apparently bought Betty pregnant because I walked into my room this past Monday morning and heard strange noises. I walked over to the cage several times before Betty sat up and all of the little babies popped their heads up. They were really pink when they were born, but 4 days later that already have lots of black fuzz coming in. The mom is a black bear hamster and it looks like they are all going to take after her! Can you imagine the kinds of questions and comments I get from 3rd graders!?! And we have already discussed how we are going to split 7 baby hamsters among 15 students. We are taking pictures of the babies as the grow and change so we can look back on it later! It has been a great teaching experience though!

Now, on a completely different topic:

Sunday we had S.O.S. (September Outreach Sundays) at GC and Express and Ambassadors from OVU performed. While Express was singing an upbeat song I looked over and saw a little girl probably between 2-3 and she was dancing her bottom off! She was wiggling and jiggling and didn't have a care in the world. I couldn't stop thinking about how innocent and care-free she was. She danced with such happiness and excitement..........isn't that how we should be all of the time? We're saved, we have hope, Jesus has washed our sins away and made us clean......Oh, to be a little girl again.