32nd Birthday in Kuwait!

That's right...I will be 32 a week from tomorrow.  It is always so weird to me to have my birthday at the beginning of the school year.  Most of the time I am just starting a new job, or meeting new students.  I have to say though that some of my best birthdays have been the past few years.  For no other reason then I just feel loved.  I got to end my 20's in Thailand....begin my 30's in Missouri...and now I get to continue on with turning 32 in Kuwait.  I have no idea what I am going to do yet, or who I am going to be hanging out with...but I am sure it will be Epic.  I mean you only turn 32 once...and you only have a first birthday in Kuwait...once.  So why not live it up!  I am thankful for the people that surround me.  I am not sure I have found that bosom friend yet, but you know that's okay.  Sometimes the greatest friends are those that we meet and then the relationship has to take time to bloom.  Sometimes we don't even realize the greatest friendships until we are thousands of miles away.  I am thankful though.  I am so thankful for this opportunity and another year to live life completely.  Take on new adventures and love some kids and teach them to be a better member of the community, or at least allow them to realize that they have purpose in this community.  

There is a lot going through my mind right now.  Teachers and parents they have a tough job.  I am not sure I have done a good job in the past, but I really want all of my students to leave my classroom knowing that they are important.  Knowing that they are responsible for their own decisions, but most of all understanding that they have a purpose in this world.  

As you are reading this (if anyone even does) I hope that you realize that you have a purpose too.  Not just to breathe and live, but to make a difference.  It doesn't have to be on the other side of the world, it doesn't have to be at a non-profit organization in the ghetto.  It can just be saying hi to someone, or listening to someone.  Sometimes for myself I get so caught up in doing, that I forget to just be.  

Like I said tonight I didn't make any real connections.  I am not sure where my place is at this school, but I am thankful I am here.  If anything just to learn more about people.  About this culture that I have been thrown into, and to use my skills to teach the best that I can.  

So...here's to 32...may it be the year of compassion and purpose.