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<\/a><\/p>\nTuesday mornings start with chapel for high school students and teachers. High school here includes seventh thru twelfth grade. Students usually lead worship, and a teacher or other adult from the center speaks. We meet in the gym, which is also where church happens and all sorts of sports are played throughout the week.<\/p>\n
I teach four classes before lunch. In the first picture below, biology students are comparing viruses, bacteria and protists. I don\u2019t think they were all into it. In geometry today, students were completing a crossword full of the lesson\u2019s circle terminology (do you know what a major arc is?) in anticipation of the bell. Classes are only fifty minutes.<\/p>\n There is a ten-minute break each morning. Students usually chat with each other and eat a snack of beef crackers. Us teachers usually find coffee or make last-minute copies. \u00a0If I am wearing my running shoes on Mondays or Thursdays (store days), I can race to the on-center store and buy eggs before they are all out.<\/p>\n After lunch, I have a conference period, teach one more class, supervise a work detail, and host math tutorials. During my conference today I was cutting out plant life cycle manipulatives for seventh grade science. They later mastered the difference between sporophytes and gametophytes.<\/p>\n Tuesday and Thursday afternoons are mail days. I have kid-like anticipation as I walk up to the mailboxes each time. This was a fabulous mail day…that wooden key means that I have a package in a bigger box!<\/p>\n I was able to get into a routine of working out over the Christmas break. While school is in session, it usually happens in the time between work and dinner. I either ride the recumbent bike or walk on the treadmill\u2026it all depends on how my legs feel after teaching all day. I have come to especially love this part of my day.<\/p>\n After dinner with a few other teachers, it is time for me to be a student. On Tuesday nights, I have National Culture and Language Acquisition. Today we learned about the process NTM uses to find the least-reached tribes. I enjoy the information sessions better than the language days; I make a fool of myself when I speak Pidgin. Other weeknight evenings include things like Bible study, staff meetings, or Gilmore Girl-watching.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n