Books!!

All these for under $5!! I'm on the hunt to fill my math and science library and today I visited several thrift stores. I was very happy to find a great selection! With a few more trips like this I could have a well-rounded collection! I wiped them off and fixed ragged edges with clear packing tape. Some of these books would go for over $20 in book stores, but I payed no more than 75 cents for each and as little as 10 cents for some. Hurray for bargain shopping!!

I'm employed!

I accepted a job. I am gainfully employed as a fourth and fifth grade math and science teacher! I am so excited but I am also heavily relying on God as I move to a new city with no friends, start a new job, and live on my own! So many new and potentially wonderful things!

Tomorrow!

Doesn't that word hold promise? Its always fresh and new and wide open.

Tomorrow is the day that I decide about jobs. Where will I live? Where will I work? I have an inkling where it will be...I can see God leading in that direction.
However we'll see what phone calls happen and how training looks...
In other news, today was my last day with the two sweet girls I nanny. They were sad but we cheered up over Avocado frozen yogurt. (its actually my all time favorite flavor even though it sounds gross)

The Painting is Complete!!

I'm done! My very first painting of consequence. Based on a picture I took in Uganda of a tea field out the window of a bus. My lovely friends Sarah helped me with paint mixing, artistic decisions, and canvas selection. Today I drank Ugandan tea in honor of the occasion!

Its Official

I have an official offer to teach fourth and fifth grade math and science at Lake City College Preparatory Academy. I have until Wednesday to decide. Do I move to a totally new city where I know no one, have no church, no friends, and no housing? Blows my mind that I could move in a week.
Already making some contact with churches there and working on the housing situation...
Updates to come!

Waterfall of Decisions

Chris Martin sings that every tear is a waterfall. I had one of those this week, no really I did. It seems that nothing at all has happened on the job front until this week. Then suddenly, BAM a waterfall of things rushing through my mind! A waterfall of tears trying to wade through it all and a whole lot of decisions to be made. (Also, I really love that song :) I had three interviews this week, one on Skype to Uganda and two in person. I've been offered the job in Uganda and one in Lake City, SC. Where is Lake City you ask..good question. I've only been there once and I'm still unsure..there were a lot of potatoes, corn, and tobacco. I actually looked at an appt. complex that was IN a corn field. yeah...

Anyway, Africa. I'm drawn to it in conversations, pictures, music, and certainly in my job hunt. This was an offer at a Christian international school that teaches over half nationals. I want to go so badly. I ache sometimes when I think how badly I want to go. I also respect my parents greatly and i know that they are given wisdom. They don't want me to go, they feel its unsafe, unknown, and too soon. I agree, yet... I would go tomorrow if I could. I'm very emotional about Africa. Its dear to my heart. Anyway, if God wants me there, I will go. Simple as that.

I hope to have until Wednesday to give an answer on the Lake City job, then I will have heard about the other one. I'm so glad its not just me all on my own making these decisions. Stay in the word, get counsel, pray about it, and just do something. (Kevin DeYoung)