Skip to main content

the promised post

so, i've been in baltimore for almost 5 full days :)
steph was in town for the weekend and left saturday morning....we had a lot of fun and it was great to spend time with her again! we even had a chance to go see charm city cakes!! for those of you who don't know, i'm a pretty avid food network watcher. and i love "ace of cakes", which is a show about a cake bakery in baltimore. steph happens to love it too and really wanted to go find it, so we did. when we got there, we saw one of the people who works there outside the restaurant across the street....and debated whether or not we should really get out to take our picture because she might see us....for about a minute and then did it anyway.....and ta da!!

yep. sorry it's small, but we wanted to get the charm city logo in the picture. it's a pretty building.
also, you may not be able to see it, but i'm definitely rocking the red and black to cheer on the dawgs for the florida game. sadly, it did not work.




i started work on monday. if you haven't heard, i'm employed by the jewish community center as an assistant preschool teacher. i'm in a class of 3 yr olds (for those of you thinking, "oh my goodness, what is she doing", you might be right....). not only are they 3, but they are hard to manage 3 yr olds. some of them because they're more than a little spoiled, some of them because they've really got problems. although they are difficult, they're pretty cute. the teachers in the school are nice. it's a really casual environmet. in fact, when i showed up in clothes i would have worn teaching last year, my bosses told me i looked nicer than they did and that couldn't happen! so, jeans it is....i've discovered that i'll be learning some hebrew during my time at the jcc....the kids not only have hebrew once a week, but they sing in hebrew in music, say their blessings for snack and lunch in hebrew, and use random bits of hebrew throughout the day.

today at work, the lead teacher was out, so it was me and a sub. umm....interesting. there were no plans given to either one of us and although i know the kids names and what the basic schedule is, i don't know a whole lot more. the sub has been at the jcc for awhile but still didn't know a lot. so we winged it. and things went pretty well. the kids behaved very well -- only a few got on yellow and none on red! the little boy who usually melts down, kicking and screaming did everything he was supposed to do (including clean up, which we're not really supposed to ask him to do because some specialist says not to....ridiculous). he was a model student. with the kids, it was probably the best day so far (in all my 3 days there). however, the sub in my room, while a nice older man, is a little too....umm....well, i hope you understand without too many descriptive details.
all in all, i like working there. whether i'll stay there long term, we'll see what happens.
ok, so one thing i'm really enjoying about the city, while a little random, is the fall colors!! so pretty and much brighter than in atl. and they fall all over the streets. and the road i drive on to get to the jcc is gorgeous with the trees the way they are right now.

i can't say it still feels like i'm living here for real yet, but working every day makes it a little more real, i guess. i'm glad i listened and followed, though because i'm enjoying being here, and i can't wait to see what will happen!

much love, dear ones.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A New Post

Y'all. I have been starting and stopping, erasing and re-writing, thinking and planning, and starting and stopping again for this post. I haven't posted since the beginning of December, and that was only a list of things I had to do for finals. Hardly note-worthy. Before that, I hadn't posted since September. Which, upon reflection, was also only a "here's what has happened in the last several weeks" post....since I hadn't updated since MAY. Clearly I'm very good at keeping up with this little blog. Probably because I'm fairly certain the only people who read this are also those that I actually update on the phone... Also, I think I've been avoiding writing anything serious for awhile because I didn't really want to think about it in such a way that would lead to a post. "It" being any number of things I've been thinking about for the last 6 months or so. Likely, another reason for this is because there are so many things ...
2 comments
Read more

motivation!

i think you should know that as i was typing the title to this post, i was singing it to a made up tune in my head... i have two papers due next week. one massive one and one that won't be so difficult. this means however, that i have less than a week to finish both of them and that means that i cannot spend any time doing anything other than work, school, or writing/researching. but. i've developed this "fall break is almost here, i don't want to do anything important right now" mentality. which is curious since i'll be doing school stuff all during fall break simply to catch up and then get ahead a little. so tonight, as i am about to get started on my work, i made a "motivation sheet!" that i can look at when i want to give up: using that verse might be a bit of a stretch, since i doubt the writer was thinking about writing 20 pg papers when he said it, but it seemed to fit. it includes baking and crafting and spending time with people, of cours...
3 comments
Read more

Over the Cliff

In the middle of Prince Caspian, there's a moment. Lucy has seen Aslan, but no one else has, and Aslan's told her she has to follow, whether anyone else does or not. Fortunately, they all agree to go with her. As the set off, she's the only one who can see Him, and she's leading everyone else.  "He led them to the right of the dancing trees -- whether they were still dancing nobody knew, for Lucy had her eyes on the Lion and the rest had their eyes on Lucy -- and nearer the edge of the gorge...for a long way Aslan went along the top of the precipices. Then they came to a place where some little trees grew right on the edge. He turned and disappeared among them. Lucy held her breath, for it looked as if he had plunged over the cliff..." Recently, I feel as if I've been following Jesus and He's disappeared, plunged right over the cliff. ********************* Last fall, I began thinking about words for 2017. I love the idea of claimin...
3 comments
Read more