Hey Hey!  It's Naomi!

My teaching block is going very well!  I'm enjoying it, and hopefully so are my students!

I'm pumped for my Christmas break too!  Wooohooo!

Read a review just now of a book called "Starving Jesus", found it interesting:

"The book is reminiscent of a story about Martin Luther who continually taught about the Gospel. When his ( Read more... )

I think that when I'm done University next year, I want to go to either Thailand, or Cambodia to teach English for a while.

I sort of have connections at both places.

Wouldn't that be sweet!?!

oh man..my unit is finally starting to come together!  (I'm doing my first "teaching block", beginning on Nov. 20th)  
It's grade 7 social studies.  I'm doing a unit on The Global Quality of Life, including Human Rights.
I'm actually starting to get excited now, rather than just being freeked out and stressed!  So this is good!  (Thank God)

I think I ( Read more... )

So, Life has changed a bit in the past week or so, mostly in relation to my living situation.  I'm still here, but Brianna is not.
She's in Cambodia!  I am SO happy/proud/excited for her!  I know that God is going to use/change her radically in the next 9 months.

I have a new roomate, her name is Amanda Peters.  We are getting along swimmingly, and ( Read more... )

 I am so thankful for my life.
What an opportunity.

I read this tonight, it encouraged me.

"Like returning from a long, difficult journey, it's the ineffable presence of God and the gentle knife of His Word that brings me back.  Once again I felt at home.  And without trying to figure everything out, I just felt safe in His presence. He just loves me.  That's it.  Things begin looking brighter."
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       I think of it as a box, sometimes 'my world', and my friends and I are trapped in this box.  I want to go outside of the box, and I try, and mainly it sucks because I think that a lot of 'the box' is church. And I hate saying that ( Read more... )

I teach grade 7.

It's crazy...but I'm liking it.

So many good things ( Read more... )

wow, I had a great day today ( Read more... )