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Name: Lisa
Gender: Female
Interests: languages, photography, reading, football, music
Expertise: ESL, general education
Occupation: teacher
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Member Since:
8/1/2006
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| I stand corrected. Interesting how all of a sudden there were a lot more viewing on that last blog. sorry. I'll keep it up. Yesterday I took one of my former students from Colorado out to lunch. She's a student here in Iowa this semester, but has decided to go back home. I wanted to see her while I could. It was quite interesting. She was quite frank about the things she's gotten mixed up in at school; though I do think she was sharing these to see if I'd be shocked. I wasn't. I'd seen her facebook pix, and this school is known for its parties. It was more shocking her talking about the bars (in a nearby town) that she goes drinking at. hmmmm, bar tenders aren't checking ID's there (she's not even 18 yet) and cops aren't doing their job on checking them. I hope going home will help her figure out who she is and what she wants to do. We were at the restaurant for 3 hours. All of a sudden I saw the dinner crowd coming in. As soon as I got home, dinner was coming out of the oven. ugh! I was so full from lunch (didn't even start eating till 2:30) that I couldn't eat much at all. Then I was settling in to check emails and got a call from mom saying the nursery worker hadn't shown up for AWANA. So ended up going there. It's the first time that I actually knew the kids in the nursery in the few times I've helped out in the last 10 years! wow! To say the least, it was an interesting day. Nice change of pace! | | |
| It's -5 again today. We had a heat wave of 32 one day. (one!) I'm hoping the roads get better, too. I've heard the trucks go by twice already this morning. Anyway, I'm sending out an email with the final decision. There's a lot still not figured out. A bit frustrating to me, but I know God has a place for me and that the sky's the limit. I believe everyone that reads this gets my email updates, so I won't bother to write about it twice. I'm wondering about even continuing this blog, and I see only my sister reads it on a regular basis. The point was not to have to write 20 million emails telling what's happening in my life, but even my mother isn't reading this regularly. So, we'll see.... | | |
| Oh, the weather outside was frightful!
but we had no fire to be delightful. :)
We had not place to go (the snow drifts were up to the door).
Let it snow, let it howl, let it snow.....
I ran out during the 50 mph winds from the north (-20 temp) from the front door of our house, which we never use, because the porch was clear and ran around the very edge of the house where there were no snow drifts to the garage to scoop out our house door to the garage. Some of the drifts were over my head and other parts of the yard had nothing!
It's -10 temp today (don't know windchill), but am sure glad we did the shoveling yesterday when it was 10 degrees. Yes, it was coooooooold, and the snow was hard from the high wind, but it was warmer than today! I did pull a muscle in my lower back and another one lower. But they are better today. Took a reeeeealllly hot shower last night because I just couldn't get warm after the 2 hours of shoveling.
My dad kept saying I should be used to this in K. I said nope. I stayed inside when it's like this, and when I did go outside it's only for a 10-15 minute walk to where I was going. They really didn't have shovels or even snow plows. We just walked through the snow. It does get tramped down after awhile with everyone walking/ driving through it continually. The blessings of being in Iowa? I get to go inside to a HEATED house! and have electricity to make hot chocolate and dry out my clothes! Trust me I will NOT complain about this. Also glad that I hadn't thrown out my long underwear or insulated socks from K! | | |
| My November email update got so many responses. Almost all were asking questions. When? Where? How? The email said I had a decision to make by the END of November; in other words, no decision had been made yet. But all these people wanted details. So either they can't read, or they thought they could get insider information. How, I'm not sure. I didn't know those answers; which is why I had a decision to make. DUH!
I haven't announced my decision- only told a handful of people- because I don't have answers to any of the next questions (when? where? support? what to do? etc.), because my new supervisor doesn't even know what I've decided as he's out of country until next week.
I told my dad what decision I made on that day. Yesterday, he asked me what decision I made. I looked at him quite baffled. Then he asked what my choices were- again baffled. I have talked to my family quite a bit about what choices there were and some pros and cons of each. memory lapse? not quite awake? not sure what happened here....
So I promise you'll find out. I had planned to have a newsletter out this week, but because of not knowing answers, it will have to wait.
As the old Sunday School song said, "have patience, have patience, don't be in such a hurry...." | | |
| I'm heading to Iowa in just a few hours! Yeah! I'll get to see my parents and unpack my suitcases finally.
Cranberries, sweetcorn, homemade bread..... yum
I've already had quite a fill of DP, as my sister bought a couple of 2 liters. :)
I really need to make a decision soon! I haven't been getting answers from people, so it's just God and me. Don't know what to do! God, please show me what to do!
Please continue to pray for A. He's able to sit up a little (with lots of help). He can't see out of one of his eyes. | | |
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