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Name: Eui
Gender: Female
Interests: hanging out with family and friends, KEPC, coffee, food, Seattle summers
Expertise: dropping things, tripping, making things more complicated than they need to be, laughing, older-sistership
Occupation: 1st grade teacher
Message: message me
Member Since:
7/24/2006
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| So, my car was stolen again yesterday morning. It was found today. Apparently, someone was actually driving it. They arrested her and my dad picked up the car for me. My car did not fare as well as it did last time. They messed up the ignition and the stereo section. The thief had taken out the cassette player (my car is a '96 Honda and still had the cassette player in it) and put in a CD player, which was probably also stolen. It reeks of cigarette smoke. Car thieves suck. | | |
| Dialogue from my day with first graders.... "Miss Song, Sam* said 'Shut your mouth'" "Sam,did you say, 'shut your mouth'?" "No...I said...'shut mouth.'" (with eyes wide open, trying to look innocent) "Sam (with strong warning in my voice), I'm not sure you're telling me the truth. I'm giving you a chance to tell me the truth. Did you say, 'shut your mouth.'?" Sam (hearing the strong warning in my voice) nods and quickly tells me he wasn't saying it to anyone in particular, which was true according to the tattler. I'm so glad first graders are not very good liars. *Names were changed in order to protect student confidentiality  | | |
| I've become more aware of just how gracious God was to me last year. I'm realizing that the reason that I had such an unusually good class last year was to help me get through my professional certification program. Each year, God stretches me in different ways. This year, He's stretching me with a more challenging class and more challenging parents. I've learned that it doesn't take much to stretch me. Things could be much worse, but I think God knows that I can only handle so much--this is what I'm trying to trust anyways. I've asked God to increase my capacity and enlarge my heart this year and that seems to be what He's doing--be careful what you ask for  . | | |
| I've been meaning to write about how the school year's going so far, how my new set of students are doing, etc. but I haven't had a strong desire to do it. That in itself is telling. I'm exhausted and overwhelmed, as usual. I had expected it to be a little easier this year after having had one more year of experience, but I'm not feeling it yet. So, instead of writing about teaching, I decided to share something that made me laugh today. It will probably make me laugh every time I think of it this week. Here's a picture I took of a sign that was posted on some of the pews in our church sanctuary. One of our KM (Korean Ministry) members must have made them. He should have checked the translation with one of the EM members. It should have said, "Reserved for Choir" (in case you weren't sure). This is probably why Korean stationery, mugs, etc. that have English written on them don't make sense--they don't check with an English-speaking person for correctness. 
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| For me, preparing for the first day of school is like preparing for a test. I get anxious about whether I prepared enough. I procrastinate and then panic over my procrastination. In the end, I realize I'll never be able to prepare as much as I'd like and the outcome is in God's hands. Today was the first day of school. The result? Things could have gone better, but all in all, it didn't go too badly. I remembered many of the little details,but I also forgot about a lot of them ("Shoot, I forgot about the snacks!""What trick did I use to remember all their names?" "How did I teach them the pack-up routine last year?" ). I was very prepared for the what I wanted to teach, but I had forgotten a lot of the how to teach what I wanted to teach. Oh well...there's always the next day. | | |
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