My first year here has flown by! In less then a month I will done with my first year of teaching!! Its crazy how fast time has flown by here! Looking back at this past year, I cant believe its already April and in two months I will be saying some goodbyes and Peach and I will be heading over to Ponphei for summer placements with Rach and Molly!
This week is SPIRIT WEEK and we are getting ready for Track and Field tomorrow. Tomorrow and Friday will be the biggest events on the island...ALL of the high schools are competing in the events from all over the island and neighboring islands. Our students are pumped up and ready for the competition but to get them even more ready we have all sorts of craziness happening. Monday was Mute Day in which no one on campus could talk and we had to be "creative" with our lesson plans. Tuesday was Career Day and the students dressed up for their future jobs. Today is Switch Day....students switching genders and teachers switching with students. Mike and I switch so I look manly and he is in one of our MuMus :) The students thought it was pretty funny. Peaches is also dressed up as a student in the uniform. Alex and Rose both switched with students and Greg is wearing a skirt. Lots of craziness and fun! Tomorrow will be a half day of classes and then we will all go down for all the preliminary races and Friday is an all day event under the hot sun! But the Sarem community will be there which always makes it a little more fun!
This Saturday our home office will also be coming in for our Re-Orientation and Dis-Orientation as well as to observe us in the classroom and as a community. The Ponphei community will also fly over with the office. It will be hectic having to entertain as well as continue working our 15 hour days. Over Easter Break we will also head out to the outer island of Pisar for the actual Re-O/Dis-O. It will be a tough week or so, but once we get back we only have 13 days of classes left! Which is just crazy since I still have SO much to cover :) but it will all work out in the end :)
With the school year coming to a close and the office coming to visit, I have really seen how fast time has gone by here. Time really has been flying by....maybe its the constant summer weather or maybe the 15 hour work days...either way, I feel like it should only be December and its April! I look back to how much I have grown already and learned about myself, my community, my students, and the would and I think of how lucky I really am to have these experiences. God really has blessed me in so many ways and I am so grateful for these experiences. I have gained such great insight into life here and have created so many relationships that will be everlasting. And knowing I still have one more year to grow and develop here makes me SO happy! I am so blessed for this experience and the people that surround me. I am also so blessed that I have such supportive friends and family back home who have been there for me whenever I needed them.
Thats just a quick update, I wanted to be sure to write something prior to the office arriving and Easter on Pisar.
Love from the Islands!
Em
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