I spend every Monday morning observing 2 Spanish classes at Carnage Middle School in Raleigh. This past week, after saying the Pledge of Allegiance, one boy asked his classmate:
"If Obama wins the election, will we start saying '...and to the Democrat for which it stands...'?"
His classmate then responded:
"Duh, it always changes when we get a new president."
I have thus added a new reason to become a teacher: Correct all Pledge of Allegiance misconceptions.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Destino Bible Study
I love Destino! We meet on Tuesday nights from 6-7:30pm, and it's great. We have been consistently a group of EIGHT girls. Ekaterina (Puerto Rican, Leader), Berenise (Peruvian), Sylvia (Mexican), Blanca (Mexican), Gladys (Mexican), Holly (North American, Campus Crusade Representative), Allison (N. A., Co-RA), and me (N. A.).
We always start out with an Ice Breaker (Rompe de heilo), like Sillas Musicales (musical chairs), and then we have a Bible Study. I love that it is a small group atmosphere and that we are all girls.
Tonight several of the girls could not make it, so I decided to postpone the lesson I had planned and the four of us there shared our testimonies. It was so incredibly neat to hear how extremely different our stories were, but yet how God was using each different detail in our lives to lead us to Destino! It reminds me that God has big plans for Destino on NC State's Campus or He would not have spent the time leading us all to be part of the Destino group.
Please pray for our group. We would love to have some guys join (we LOVE our girl group, but we can't stay exclusive forever). Also pray that God would use us on our campus and that we would know how to reach out to the Hispanics here.
When I visited State during my senior year of high school, I signed up on NC State's Hispanic organization's email list. While in Costa Rica I got an email announcing the first Destino meeting. I was so excited about the idea of Destino, that I prayed for it even before I came to State. It's fun to look back and see how God put Destino on my heart before I was even a part of it!...God clearly has had plans for Destion long before the rest of us did.
We always start out with an Ice Breaker (Rompe de heilo), like Sillas Musicales (musical chairs), and then we have a Bible Study. I love that it is a small group atmosphere and that we are all girls.
Tonight several of the girls could not make it, so I decided to postpone the lesson I had planned and the four of us there shared our testimonies. It was so incredibly neat to hear how extremely different our stories were, but yet how God was using each different detail in our lives to lead us to Destino! It reminds me that God has big plans for Destino on NC State's Campus or He would not have spent the time leading us all to be part of the Destino group.
Please pray for our group. We would love to have some guys join (we LOVE our girl group, but we can't stay exclusive forever). Also pray that God would use us on our campus and that we would know how to reach out to the Hispanics here.
When I visited State during my senior year of high school, I signed up on NC State's Hispanic organization's email list. While in Costa Rica I got an email announcing the first Destino meeting. I was so excited about the idea of Destino, that I prayed for it even before I came to State. It's fun to look back and see how God put Destino on my heart before I was even a part of it!...God clearly has had plans for Destion long before the rest of us did.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Busy Busy Busy
My list I created to be completed for the weekend:
-Call my Grandma Kincaid and thank her for also sending me a generous check to help out with Fall Break Break-Ins!
-Interview a resident for a Diversity paper
-Write Diversity Paper for RA Class (5-7 pages)
-Write Observation paper for Intro into Education (3 pages)
-Go visit CHASS Dean and get a class approved for next semester
-Visit Duke Nasher Museum of Art with Spanish Literature Class (1pm-4pm Saturday)
-Do research in Library on selected painting from Duke Nasher Museum
-Write analytical paper in Spanish about painting, artist, and time period influences
-Do weekly readings and answer questions for Spanish Literature
-Do Unit 3 Outline for Early American History (including researched sources)
-Do weekly History online readings
-Prepare for Bible Study for Destino on Tuesday (I'm leading!)
-Complete 2 reference forms for people applying for RA positions for next year
-Work on Logistics and Advertising for Operation Christmas Child program in my dorm
-allow residents to come and sit in my room for hours at a time and listen to them talk even though I have a lot to do (I really do love them, though...they're great! and they make me laugh a lot)
-sleep, eat
And to think that I (well, my parents) PAY $$$$$ for me to do all of this!....Americans are CRAZY!
-Call my Grandma Kincaid and thank her for also sending me a generous check to help out with Fall Break Break-Ins!
-Interview a resident for a Diversity paper
-Write Diversity Paper for RA Class (5-7 pages)
-Write Observation paper for Intro into Education (3 pages)
-Go visit CHASS Dean and get a class approved for next semester
-Visit Duke Nasher Museum of Art with Spanish Literature Class (1pm-4pm Saturday)
-Do research in Library on selected painting from Duke Nasher Museum
-Write analytical paper in Spanish about painting, artist, and time period influences
-Do weekly readings and answer questions for Spanish Literature
-Do Unit 3 Outline for Early American History (including researched sources)
-Do weekly History online readings
-Prepare for Bible Study for Destino on Tuesday (I'm leading!)
-Complete 2 reference forms for people applying for RA positions for next year
-Work on Logistics and Advertising for Operation Christmas Child program in my dorm
-allow residents to come and sit in my room for hours at a time and listen to them talk even though I have a lot to do (I really do love them, though...they're great! and they make me laugh a lot)
-sleep, eat
And to think that I (well, my parents) PAY $$$$$ for me to do all of this!....Americans are CRAZY!
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