another week...

This week was very tiring. My students are really trying. Some news on that... it seems like my job is going to change a bit. One of the classes that I teach (of the 2) will be split up and mixed into the other 7th year classes. I think this is good because I think the kids will do better split up. The lowest level kids are going to be put into my form so I'll still be able to work with them. The other half of my schedule I'll be helping with EAL. I don't know how much help I'll be or what exactly the job will entail, but I think it will be better than now.

God has been trying to help me to keep a compassionate heart when I see my kids. They drive me crazy, but at the end of the day "everyone needs compassion, love that's never ending, the hope of ages; everyone needs forgiveness, the kindness of a Saviour..." as the song goes. I know I'm here for a reason, but it just seems so often that I have no authority. This weekend one of the speakers at church talked about teachers who would shout and how they didn't have authority and then one teacher, his maths teacher, just had to look, and how he knew the authority he had and he used it. I feel so powerless and ineffectual so often, I really want/need that kind of authority... I need to pray that it is released in me.

So long story short, a few more weeks and a lot of things will be different.

Cheers!