A few days here and there

It's been a good few days recently. Today at school, we talked with the 5th grade for the entire hour about Harry Potter. It made me so happy! I showed Yolanda the puppet pals, of course, and the kids were nuts with all of the info they could remember! They started spouting out spells and they even said the name of he-who-must-not-be-named. It's pathetic how that makes me cringe. But it does.
Yesterday was an interesting day at the high school. The time actually flew by because I was doing work the whole time. I didn't have class with the kids, silent YES, because they were on a field trip. I started doing typing work for Carmen and had class in the cafeteria with Maria Angustias and just listened to music/typed all day. PS Jordin Spark's "Battlefield" is hot stuff.
Last night I watched the finale of One Tree Hill. It was a fantastic episode. I had given up on said show earlier because it had quasi turned to crap but that episode was a wonderful ending to a season, and possibly my viewing career.
Also yesterday, I started a devotional about leadership that should get finished right as I leave Roquetas. I'm excited to dig into it with upcoming YL leadership stuff and yesterday's lesson was cool.
To speak of cool, though, would be to speak of Monday afternoon when John Piper shook my soul with two of his sermons. The first was on Jesus being raised like Moses raised the snake on the staff. It was so cool to once again see the OT connecting with the NT and it got me fired up. Such an AWESOME message. The next one was about the recession. So necessary to hear people. In recent weeks I have become more and more aware of the sad state of our world and how easy it is for people to ignore others. If we love Christ, that is not what we are about. We are to bring light to the dark, to bring love to the lost, to give to the needy, etc. This sermon was baller status. It reminded me a lot of the Gandhi quote - Be the change you want to see in the world. I know I am sick and tired of reading about parents killing their children, sexual abuse, greed of corporate executives, hysteria over the swine flu that has killed 10000 people TOTAL but ignorance to AIDS which kills 6000 people EVERY DAY, etc. I'm saddened by how many people continue to turn away from love and turn to this world that is full of hurt and disappointment.
Oh my little soap-box blog. Gotta eat and rest up for a long hike this afternoon - possibly the last little prof hang-out we'll have. Crazy that I only have a week left of teaching. It still hasn't hit me. Probably a good thing. Bring on the fam!!