Loves like a hurricane, i am a tree

Hey

So today is a pretty chill day =) Which i guess is pretty good. Time to just think.

Learned how to wash rice =P As ridiculous and rudimentary as that sounds, i officially learned it today =) Which is good because now I'm ready for next week when hopefully i'll be doing half the chores of the house. I'm actually kind of excited for that because then i feel like i'm ACTUALLY contributing. I feel like often i don't contribute enough and sometimes my mom doesn't think i should be doing it because i'm "busy" when i'm not really but she thinks i am. So that'll be something. Kind of worried bout my mom =\ like how she'll be after it and the recuperating stages of it. I'm really grateful that people are praying for her =)

So yesterday was possibly the most stressful day of peer helping yet. Because the teacher left and he left the class with an in-class investigation that was open book, individual and was going to be marked like a test. Not the greatest idea =\ especially because the topic was more like....i don't know, they didn't know it that well. so they had ALOT of questions. so like 5 minutes in, 80% of the class had their hands up. and that was pretty intense. because that's a lot of kids that need help =\ and when you don't get to them fast enough...they start talking. And it was bad that they were talking because then they didn't get any work done =\ the first sub was alright except he explained the question differently than me and his explanation kind of confused the students so not too much help but he was alright. And then the second sub thought i was a regular student and told me to sit down =P the kids laughed at me for a good minute. and then we got back to work. kind of. =\ In the end most of them finished. But there were a couple that stayed a couple minute after school and i didn't have to go to my locker so i let them stay a couple extra minutes because I really wanted them to finish because they were smart kids just...really distracted =\ It was a learning experience i guess. I think i had to raise my voice once or twice yesterday because there was just so much talking and not enough working. Hopefully they didn't take that as me being angry. Because i don't think i was. Just a little frustrated. And needed to get it across the room.

Last night was the regular meet up and I was kind of really excited for it or at least just really anticipating seeing them because I love Wednesday nights. They kind of just make my week so much better because right in the middle of the week I can just spend time with some of my coolest friends and just talk about whatever =) This week...well it was more like manual laborizing =P So it's P.Fred's birthday tomorrow and I figured that while I was there I'd maybe clean up his room. Dustin, PY and Ben joined in and we literally EMPTIED his room. Simon provided us with a soundtrack while he Ophelloed it out =P So we took out EVERYTHING. Shoved it into the hallways and then we started. PY and Ben started on the papers which were SO MANY. but they tanked it and made folders and everything. Simon made tabs =) Dustin and me took out the boxes, shoved things INTO boxes. I figured out how many devo books freddy had that night. WAY TOO MANY! So all the art stuff is in one area now and it's prettied up =) It was funny because when we took everything out, we were all like IT'S SO CLEAN! and it was funny because it was only clean because there was nothing inside =P I also made an observation. Freddy's got the smallest office and the most stuff =P. So it was some intensive cramming. Tetris skills! Took us like 3 hours in total. Some crazy stuff. But it's a lot cleaner. Though he might need a tour of his room =P considering we kind of shoved everything into different places. Not that he'll be looking for the books i put in his shelf anytime soon =P We joked that his whole office was basically like a GIANT cardboard box with a computer in it =) Pastor Angelina was laughing at our efforts. Glad he likes it. =) And it was super fun =) Can't wait to see that video of him seeing it. Hope it's like....decent quality =P

Thank you God for being so awesome the past couple days. That I could just spend time with my friends. Spend time with you. And just spend time thinking about everything. Excited for tomorrow =) Fellowship's always amazing =)

P.Requests:
- Time with God
- Patience and Love in just everything I do
- Mom? =)

thanks
-Chris