So clearly I am LOUSY at keeping up to date with my blog… I would love to say that it is simply because I am sooooo busy that it just slips my mind! But I think the truth be told it just slips my mind! However if you were ever to look at my journals for the past 10 odd years you would realize that I am bad at keeping up to date with that as well. I will go like a month or so and realize I haven’t journaled and then brain dump for a few pages… I know that the “ideal” way to keep my life updated and have the freshest memories and feelings is to, keep all of theses things updated on lets say a weekly basis… but I think for the moment I do better when I just do it at random!
So lets see… since the last time I updated was oh …. August there has to have been a million things happening!!
So this year in Schweinfurt has been good so far! The high school joining with the Bamberg high school has gone fairly well! There have been bumps but over all there wasn’t too much blood shed! Working with the club staff in Bamberg has also been fantastic!! It has been really nice to have more then just sara and I holding down club. This year due to the joining of the two schools, club attendance on a weekly basis has been on the upside of 40!! Which is totally a God thing!!
Middle school … I love middle school students, I love their energy and their joy for life!! Club this year has been a building process!!! For the first month of so turn out was not the best…. But as of right before Christmas we had about 15 students hanging out. I had one of the best conversations with a middle schooler that made me laugh simply because of how it turned out!
It went something like this… a middle school boy told me that Club was stupid and he didn’t want to be a part of it, when I asked him how he knew that club was stupid even when he had never been there before, he response was “it just is!” however 3 days later he came to club and had a blast! So much so that the next day at school he asked me if it would be ok if he came to the next one, and he was concerned that he was going to the states for 3 weeks and wanted to make sure that he would still be able to come to club once he got back!
Middle schoolers do make me laugh!! We are just now entering into the crazy busy half of our year. Sara and I refer to this part of the year as being the never-ending sprint! Pretty much ever month I have a trip with and without students. I will be traveling from Spain to the Czech republic and down to Italy twice. As well as several different places in Germany. I will TRY to be better about keeping this up to date but there are no guarantees!