First week of School!

I just finished my first 3 days of school at SCCLC!  I would love to tell you all about it!  


I want to make sure you all know what my class and school is like after being here now and finding out more about everything.  


The school used to be a school co-operated by many different mission organizations, mainly created to serve the missionary kids (MK) in the area.  They had a rule that there had to be at least 50% MK's in the schools population, thus limiting the amount of Bolivian Nationals that could enroll in the school.  Unfortunately in recent years, many of these mission organizations have pulled out of the country and SAM- my organization- has become the primary owner of the school.  Because of this there have become some changes to the 50% rule in the school and now the STRONG majority of students coming into the school are Bolivian Nationals.  


Some of these kids are Christians and some not!  While still in the US at the SAM office I was feeling a little unsure as to what my role as a missionary was besides just teaching missionary kids.  I was wondering- If all of the kids are missionary kids (and probably Christians), then what would be my purpose for being a missionary other than providing a service for the other missionary families.  When Kirk at the home office explained the unique situation the school is currently in, and that most kids coming may or may not be Christians and also that a purpose of mine was to show them Jesus AND develop them into the Godly leaders of the future of Bolivia, I felt a huge purpose in my ministry!


On Tuesday I met most of my students when they came with their parents for an open house!  The kids were mostly very excited to be there and it was great to meet them and their parents!  I have mostly Bolivian Nationals in my class with parents that don't really speak English.  Because of this I was very thankful that I speak Spanish.  I can't imagine how some of the other teachers felt who don't speak Spanish having these parents try to talk to them!  


Wednesday-Friday was so amazing and CRAZY!  My students are ADORABLE (I will hopefully be able to post pictures in this blog).  I have 13 students and love them all!  They all are so unique and have varying levels of ability, which will bring such joy to teaching them!  I know not one of them is fluent in English and so talking to them as a group they don't all understand me.  I have learned very quickly how to create some classroom management techniques for myself using hand motions and pictures to communicate along with my words.  


I would love to tell you a little about each of my students so that you may be able to pray for them!


Andrea- She is VERY energetic!  I am hoping that we will be able to channel this energy into her intelligence I see in her so that she has a productive year!


Andrew-  VERY SMART, and very boy- he told me he was captain America at recess yesterday!


Cassie- She is a twin of Jonah in the class.  This is her first year here at SCCLC, and with only 4 girls in the class she has made friends quickly.  


Dana-  She is very low language wise, I think pretty smart intelligence wise, at least I am hoping because otherwise we are going to have to work on classroom discipline with her!


Jean Pierre- He already can count to 100- He already got a huge cut on his neck from a kid hitting him with a stick at recess!


Julian- Very low language ability and he relies on other students for understanding of English all of the time- but knows his alphabet well!


Haziel- Very funny but a little bit of a trouble maker!


Renato- A kid who is very confident, and all boy- but I am worried about his language skills


Ryan- He already has a crush on me.... VERY CUTE... he is not yet 5 (soon)... and is new to the school as well.


Jonah- He has problems with cassie picking on him- VERY SMART and polite.


Sara- She seems very knowledgeable about God!  She volunteered to pray yesterday!


Sebastian- The trouble maker of the class, but when challenged to improve he has risen to the task! 




OKAY GOING TO HAVE ROOMIE MOVIE/BONDING TIME!


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