Saturday, November 8, 2008

Three Months and A Preview of My Sunday

11-8-08 Yesterday, November 7th, was the day that marked the fact that I have now officially been on Ebeye for three months. Three months! Seems like it was only a few days ago that I wrote about how two months seemed like some major achievement. And I am pretty sure that I'll write that four months is an achievement, and then for five months, etc., all the way until I reach home and go, "Wow! I've been home a week!" or something like that.

This quarter is the short quarter of the school year (probably because of Christmas Break), and so midterms are already approaching. I mean, we just finished first quarter grades and had conferences with the parents--and lo and behold! in our office mailboxes we already have the forms for midterm grades. I shake my head and sigh, then start anticipating writing my midterm tests on Sunday.

Our accreditors arrive this week, and, accordingly, we're having a work bee on Sunday. We're supposed to start at 9:30 AM and work for two hours, but since the church members are also going to help, it will take much longer for them to arrive, and we usually stay until everything's accomplished. Part of being the student missionary, I suppose. My classroom is going to receive a much-needed coat of paint and some electrical work. Textbooks that need moved to another room will be, and I will help clean out the teachers' workroom (and try to make it into a room where people could actually work!). After the work bee, I have my first confined water scuba dive. It's not really confined, and it's not really a dive, per se. We'll be diving in the lagoon, to learn and then to practice skills we'll need to know for when we actually go deep down. We'll be staying rather close to the surface, and that's why it's not really a dive. But the time will come, and I already have butterflies. In the evening, I will grade assignments and quizzes from Friday, enter grades into my computer, and work on those "terrible" midterm tests. And that will be Sunday, November 9th, 2008. Hope your Sunday is/was just as action-packed!

More later.

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