Today I met the fellow new teachers. My apartment complex is the farthest away from the school, so we get picked up first. As we were talking with fellow teachers, while waiting I was amazed by the vast amount of experience and connections that were made, just in the 16 teachers that fit into our van. I am always amazed when people have lived places that I have visited, or in some cases lived. Sometimes I feel like that is God's way of simply saying that the world is smaller than I think. As I talked with fellow teachers, I thought about how we all are able to come together with our various amounts of experience to form a team. In many ways my first team was Rawhide, and for that I will always be grateful. There will never be another team like the teams of 2001 and 2013, they will go down in history, as some of the greatest people I have ever known. But this team, the team of 2013-2014...well they will also go down in history. There will never be a team that is exactly the same. There will never be another first day of meeting.
I am not sure I feel like I accomplished a lot today, but at least seeing the school was enough for me. I am hoping that tomorrow brings some pictures. Meanwhile I am going to think and pray about all the connections that I made today. Hoping that somewhere along the way there are some deep friendships beginning to bud. I am not sure that I have room for all the people I keep meeting in life, but I am truly thankful that I continue to meet and grow from each one of them. I am thankful that my heart has a place to love all of those that I come in contact with.
Today I was reminded a little bit of Egypt. We were riding in the van leaving school when all of a sudden we had to back all the way back down where we had just come from because a Pepsi truck needed to get through. It was at that moment that I realized I never want to drive here. It is totally not worth the stress to me. Seeing the way that people have to drive, I feel much safer and more confident in a taxi! :0
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