This
has been one heck of a Tuesday. So walking to school this morning with Lusi. He
always drops me off in the morning. It was super windy for here and rainy and I
had said to him I really hope the teachers who have to take the boat come
today. He reassured me by saying the wind was from the right direction no
worries. The states have this beautiful thing called substitute teachers. American Samoa does not. So when a teacher
calls in sick the principal or vice principal will take over the class. Well we
are currently understaffed which means the principal or vice principal are
teaching those classes until they can fill the position. For some odd reason
people don’t get as much enjoyment from the boat rides as I do. So we are low
on staff. Its about five minutes until the bell rings all my students are
sitting at their desk with their notebooks out talking a million miles a minute
to me before school starts. The vice principal comes in to tell me that the
principal, SPED, ECE, fifth, and sixth grade teachers are all gone today.
Please have the level five students in your classroom today.
So
instead of my nine students I jumped to 19.
Which when you are used to only have nine its quite a jump. Plus my
classroom is not made for this many students. It was quite an eventful morning
trying to get all of the kids settled and listening to me. I was in the middle
of a lesson and it starts down pouring and rain was coming through my shutter
windows and kids were moving around to stay dry and a crab goes running through
the middle of the classroom. Which sends everyone running around trying to step
on it to kill it. Meanwhile I’m just trying to get them quiet. After lunch I
had to leave for a meeting. I felt real guilty dumping all those students onto
a different teacher but I had no choice.
While
on Saturday my car’s check engine light came on so it is currently at the car
shop aka some mans back yard. I sent Lusi to town to go order the part. The
mechanics don’t order the parts here you have to go to a NAPA store and do that
on your own. Turns out NAPA is only open on weekdays and so I can’t ever make
it there on time. Thankfully Lusi can. I send him and we plan on meeting up
after my meeting to go home. He then starts calling me saying that none of the
places will order it for some reason. So once again I hit a dead end. Hopefully
we can figure something out.
On
top of all that was happening today I have two MAJOR assignments due in my
master’s classes. As I am riding along the coastline I can’t seem to stop all
of my problems from going through my head. Then I start thinking. This morning
in my devotions before school I came across something that really hit home. I
have two devotions that I do at home. One that is specially for teachers and
the other is just a daily one. The teacher one talked about how as a teacher
you are always giving to your students. Always acknowledging them and making
sure they are okay. Even though I had classroom of kids today I still found
time to go to almost all of them and see how they were. The second devotion
that I did this morning talked about worrying about things we cannot control.
As I was watching the rainfall and the waves crash. I was thinking about how I
can’t really control any of the crazy that happened today. That’s all God. I
can sit here for the next couple of hours and let the worry roll through my
head or I can let it go. Like the raindrops falling on the side of the car I
just let the worry fall to the ground. Sometimes in the crazy I forget to sit
and reflect and let it go. I know that everything happens for a reason and you
just have to trust the process.
With
Love,
Abby
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