Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Busy-ness

It is amazing how busy the life of a teacher is. I am currently teaching six classes for four different departments: English 4 and Family Relations to the Science of Education department, Philosophy of Education to Nursing, Pre-intermediate English to the English Academy (of which that is the only class), and English to Fifth Grade and Sixth Grade (separately) at the elementary school. This week is time to turn in monthly grades, and I am working furiously to get them ready.

In addition to all this, of course, I dedicate part of my time to my girlfriend, and I also try to relax some. Balance of this nature has never been something I’ve been particularly good at. But I thank God (literally, of course) that I’m getting better.

The trip to Peru is still in the plans, but it has been moved chronologically. Now we are headed to Peru this December. We’re also planning on taking some time during that trip (about three weeks is the plan) to visit Machu Picchu, partly because even though it is an internationally-known and important site of Peru, she’s never been there either. So we’re saving up money for the December trip and planning to save up more in the spring for another trip and a wedding. A tentative date is July. Note the word “tentative,” meaning “Not fully worked out, concluded, or agreed on; provisional; uncertain; hesitant” (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tentative).

I hope everyone who reads this has a great day!

2 comments:

It's me! said...

Hi there, Tom... nice to get an update on you and all your doings and goings. I am so happy that things are going well for you, even if they are hectic. It is nice that you can be with your girl too. ;)

School has started again for me...only a year left for my RN degree now.... that is... if i live through this term. ha

Say hi to your family for me. I miss them.

Anonymous said...

hey tom,

how's everything going? i can't believe you're teaching in Spanish at a college. that's pretty cool. i hope everything's going well with you and your fiance.

i've been crazy busy with rvp position but it's been rewarding. we're doing something like in the huddle without the preliminaries like song service. it's going pretty well. we have 5 groups.

i also started another blog at blogbydee.com. and scott got a promotion as a pastor. praise god!

anyways, god bless you in everything you do. this comment is kinda late but i don't know your email address.

dee