Summer Stress

While the summer students were fun I have also gone through a few weeks that have made me want to pull my hair out.  Two weeks before the summer team can I decide that there was no good English curriculum available.  So I sat down to write my own fifteen lesson teaching and student books.  I felt like I was chained to my computer for a while as every waking hour was spent typing or brainstorming what to type next.  But praise the Lord that now we have something we can use for years to come. 

 

I was also in the midst of changing schools and renewing my visa.  This took getting a letter from my old school which is known for not being overly efficient.  I had to track down one lady’s home address and sit outside her door at six in the morning to finally get the letter I needed  By the time I got it, my new school had home on summer vacation and no one was there to process my new visa application.  I needed some type of valid identification to go travelling with the summer students later that week.  To top it off my old school was trying to kick me out of my dorm room since I was the only one living in the building and costing them too much money.  There was one day that if someone had offered me a one way ticket home, I likely would have taken it.  But thanks be to God, he worked it all out and I am now safe and settled at my new school (yes, for those of you who are counting this is my third house in less than a year).