April 18th 2006

I am really trying not to be a pessimist about this trip, I do know that when God leads he provides everything we need for this trip. One source of great encouragement during this time have been the third graders at the school I have been student teaching at. During calendar time I have been sharing with them about my trip to Tokyo, Japan and their excitement is contingence. I started teaching them a phrase in Japanese (out of the very few that I know) and they ate it up. In fact they started teaching it to the Cafeteria ladies, and the ESL teacher, etc. The whole school began to be part of this learning experience. This just made me excited to see how these kids were learning about new cultures and putting passion into my life for what I know I should be doing.