Colds, The Bible, and King Tut

KING TUT
When Bill and I went to see the King Tut exhibit at the Atlanta Civic Center, I bought a calendar that is an 2008-09 calendar - but it has a lot of the pictures of the artifacts that were in the exhibit that wanted to take pictures of but could not. So I have laminated that calendar and then printed out their descriptions. All of this took hours~! But I plan to at some point hang thsm in my classroom. At this point my room is full and I will probably hopefully have to move at the end of the year because they are going to do repairs. I am praying I can move to a new classroom as my room is HOT every single day. Even in the dead of winter MY room is HOT. Anyway, its a small thing but I am excited that I got that done. Then I went to a exhibitmerchandising web site that was listed on the back of the calendar and bought 2 really cool books on King Tut. The books in the museum gift shop were very expensive. I hope you like my cool pictures! I worked very hard at getting them -

SICK

Well, my grandson Gabe, gave me a cold and diarrhea. I started getting sick Sunday night and have battled it with loads of Vit C and Viacam. Anyway I am much better now. I have used a lot of kleenex. I hope Gabe is doing better. I have been sicker this year than other years. Starting the New Year off sick is a bummer.

WEEK AT SCHOOL

I have had a rough week at school the kids are just wild. But I must say I did have a good experience also. A student I will call "J" who is definitely a problem in class - we have battled over and over - yet I like him and he likes me. In fact at times has said that I am his favorite teacher!! In spite that I have written him up over and over. I also had him in Middle School so the Lord seems to think that we NEED to associate with one another. Anyway- I had the kids in groups and everyone was working really well - a teacher's DREAM - the group he was in began to talk about God. I did not hear the conversation. But a girl in the group had a small New Testament pocket sized scripture. J had it - held it up to me and "Mrs. Bond find something in here that I need to read." I said Okay!!! - So in my mind I was praying that I could quickly find a scripture that would apply to him before the moment was gone. I opened it to Matthew 4 and read 1-4 : I said read this especially verse 4 - "man cannot live by bread alone." So he read it and yelled out to me - I don't know what that means (after the girl in the group tried to explain it to him). I said it means that you have to not only feed your body but you have to feed your spirit - your soul needs spiritual food. It was like a light bulb went on inside his head. He said - Oh... I get it - I am going to read more! NOW THAT IS A VICTORY - I have them in groups all the time - and I overheard him telling someone that he had a dream that scared him - someone came to him and told him that he had to change that the things he was doing was very wrong - He's into having sex with a girl in my class also - they are very free with that information. Anyway he said "I'm not stopping doing stuff I don't care, I ain't quiting! I wanted to intervein and give him council but decided since it was not directed to me that I would not. Anyway this was a small thing but could lead to great things. This kid is extremely smart but likes to argue and cause a big stir with me AND his classmates.