it is that time year again...school is back in session & guess who is reporting???

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”  (William Arthur Ward)

...ME!  i know, take a deep breath, sit down; i am going back to teaching; yes they let me be in charge of the minds of our youth, ohh yet again ;|...& i accepted...the new adventure has begun, you are now reading the blog of a high school, American Sign Language Teacher (i know it is CRAZY)...after being away from teaching, i realized how much i missed it, i LOVE education, it provides a whole new world of knowledge and when you are really interested in a topic it makes learning about it that much fun (& yes if you are wondering, i have always been a dork, i just mask it by my cool quirkyness)...

...this new adventure comes with some fun -- i get a new classroom, i am teaching a subject i LOVE to big kids; a population i also enjoy, i am in a great district, i am working with some great people, i get to learn and play & just live in this moment of teaching...

...this new adventure also comes with some "AHHHHH" moments -- i am in a new district, in a BIG new building, with BIG kids that sometimes can smell fear, i still have no idea what the year or even the first week of school will look like, i really don't know anyone & i am the new kid; but with the "AHHHH" moments i am still living in the moment that is teaching; of having an "AHHA" moment that will blow the "AHHH" moments out of the water...

...so with all the moments of the adventure; i guess i am just looking forward to what comes next...

schools back & so am i...

who says you can't go camping at 30...

...miss me...i know your life has completely halted b/c my lack of blogging...i have a goal to blog once a week from this point forward; lots of changes...don't worry i will give you an update ;)...now for the blog...

..."“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)

well my latest adventure...volunteering at the antiochian village...kids from all over are dioceses attend church camp for 2 weeks during the summer...my little cousins go 4th session & i promised i would attend if they all 4 got in, well they did so...& let's just say i am not a camper; my idea of roughing it is like going to a motel 6 on the wrong side of town...basically you guessed it i am no annie oakley...but i signed up and off we went...

& it was one of thee best experiences in my life...i learned things about my faith i never knew...heard beautiful chants & hymns...served kids of all ages lots of fun food (hmmm, that might be up for debate; depending on who you ask), swung 40 feet in the air, rode a horse, prayed, laughed, sang, witnessed happiness all around & took it all in & it was just peace...

& i am glad i went on adventure to a place that inflicts so many with so much happiness; where friendships last a lifetime are created; in fact, i experienced this first hand & met some AHH-mazing people, a place where faith is planted and then continues to grow stronger and stronger; where if you stand long enough you can see God's hand in everything...& you just smile...

...until next year, maybe i'll be seeing you AV!