After not being able to sleep this Sunday morning, I decided to get up and work on lesson plans and some school work. Upon sitting down with my laptop, I realized that I really didn’t want to work on school work and would rather blog.
Let me catch you up on some of the events of the past couple of weeks.
First, we had our opening week of school at SCS and many teachers used that week to prepare students for some of the academic hardships they were facing this semester in their various classes. This year, I am teaching a new class…SPEECH, which I am enjoying thoroughly, but I am not sure my students are yet. Aside from our robbery, the week at school passed rather uneventfully.
Second, on the last day of that first week, Matt and Aaron Collier came to present some material for the camp they would be overseeing here in Seoul. Our students were going to have the opportunity to experience camp as it is in America!
During the second week of “school”, the teachers became counselors for a wonderful (if tiring) week of camp. The students, while still students, were able to find out what American camp was all about.
You have to understand, these students do go to camps here in South Korea. These camps though are more military and regimented than the WILDS, Southland, Northland, Co-Be-Ac and the like. Talking out of turn can lead to severe, very extended punishments such as the “drop and give me 20” or prolonged calisthenics.
The time is usually devoted to intensive study, Bible or otherwise, and other free times are devoted to all kinds of other…less wholesome activities.
Imagine the surprise of these students when their teachers started screaming and cheering! It took a LOT of effort to get them all into it at first, but they eventually came ‘round and I think we all had a fun time…well maybe that is not completely true.
I think it was good for our students to see us as counselors as I hope that they will be able to approach us much more easily. Many of them made wonderful decisions and I look forward to what the Lord is going to do for the next couple of months in their lives.
This brings me to my third point. It seems that many of our students and teachers fell ill. There has been some talk that some of these cases were H1N1 and some of those that did get sick, got really sick. However, while none of them enjoyed being sick I am sure, all of them recovered with the unfounded fears of the H1N1 virus!
While the level of work this year has been extraordinarily high this year, it has been wonderful to have the school full with the students again. God blesses by giving more than we can handle and then taking care of those things we cannot!
More to come…
