1 day down...10 more left!!!!

Well I started summer school and had a good day. I am teaching 22 first grade students. I have not really been in a classroom for several years. I usually teach 2-4 students reading at a time. Those students I normally teach have learning disabilities and attention issues. This is going to be a good experience to get back into the real world of teaching.

This is one of my favorite pictures from Hawaii. I went there last year for a women's retreat and had an amazing time. This picture was taken at 7:30ish in the morning. We had just went and experienced the sunrise in Hawaii. Then we went to a cast your burdens ceremony. We all took a rock that was to represent some burden we were carrying. Then we threw that rock into the water and it was a way of symbolically representing a giving away the burden. It was just fun because afterwards several of us jumped into the ocean and went for a swim. The water was warm enough and it felt good. The hard part was walking back to the dorms in soaking wet sweats.