One wish
I have been assisting with grade 2 reading…challenging since reading is not my thing. Grade two only has two students, so I am surviving. They just finished up the unit called Traditional Tales. We’ve been reading traditional tales from other counties. We did not even read the first story until the third day because it took 2 days to explain what winter and seasons were. Here there are two seasons: hot and hotter. The next story made much more sense to the students after we talked about where the story was from which was Iraq. The… Read more >>Moving Forward
As I started this, I had no idea what to share...I decided to post honestly how I am doing and hope it will be insightful to the people who care and are supporting me through this Journey. Right before Christmas break, my roommate and I were running the school while our director was away for 3 weeks. School itself was not difficult but spending 12 hours a day with someone 6 days a week was hard. Plus you add all the emotions about not being home for Christmas and we became impatient and… Read more >>Small world
I got a chance to visit the Blackman family for Christmas, which was a wonderful time and words cannot express how thankful I am for them. Cristina Paredes Blackman lived in Pittsburgh while I was in high school and was a part of Friendship Church. My family kind of adopted her and she was a big sister to me. Now, roles have switched. Her husband’s job moved them here and they (Cristina, Bryce and their daughter Eva Kay) have adopted me. While there we went into town to meet another missionary couple who Bryce and Cristina had… Read more >>Baby Steps
Everyone has heard the saying “you can’t judge a book by its cover” We tend to do the same thing when it comes to meeting new people. When I first started to teach at Project Pag-asa I was struggling because Lilly would not open up to me. When I started my one on one tutoring and Beth told me Lily would be one of the students I would spend time with I thought, "How is that going to work ...she won't even talk to me?" I learned later on that she was struggling with me as well. Turns out she was having trouble getting used to my… Read more >>