Valentine's Day

A whole new meaning.......I now know why Valentine's Day is not a favorite of teachers and parents; it is not that they were against class parties, or the "love" of the whole day, but it is the sugar rush that all elementary school kids get from all of the candy they are eating. It is not that I doubted that you could get a sugar rush, but I never really knew that it was that bad. When you have 150 kids in your classes from Kindergarten to 7th grade and they have been eating candy all day, you will understand. I could not believe how wired they all were! It really more amazed me than made me mad. How could I get too mad when I was trying to talk to kids with tongues that were as colorful as the rainbow? I would not like to repeat today, but it was not all bad. I got a lot more hugs....and chocolate:) I love my classes. It is going to be really hard to leave in a couple of weeks. This brings me to my next point. 


Less than three weeks.


I leave for Australia in one day less than a month and I leave Seward in 19 days. AH! Things are moving way too quickly. I BOOKED MY FLIGHT, finally and I got my visa, and it is becoming very real. I am now getting super excited- not that I wasn't before, but I do not think it has truly hit me until recently. The other side is hitting me as well though; I am leaving Concordia and I am leaving my friends. My roommates (one of which has put up with me since freshman year), my teammates, and all of the other wonderful people God has put into my life since I came to Nebraska. I could not have asked for a better past four years............but what am I talking about! I still a little over two weeks, I have time to be sad later. 


I will leave you with one funny story from today. I started a Badminton unit with all of my classes, I was discussing how to grip the raquet with my 7th graders and I asked if we had any lefties in the class. One kid raised his hand and said he could use both hands, to which one of his friends replied "Oh you are anorexic!"  I could not help but bust out laughing. "You mean ambidextrous?" I replied. "Ooooo, Yeah thats what I mean!" Haha, have to love 7th graders and there expanding vocabulary. :) Hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day!!


1 John 4:7-10 "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins."