Better Late than Never, right?

I'm only a little behind, yes? I promise I've been trying to post this for 2 days. To make up for it, here is a pretty picture walking home from school I took earlier this month:

I’m going to be honest with you, today did not start great. At all. There wasn’t anything particularly horrifying that happened, but it’s hard to start your day off right when your stupid dog wakes you up between 5:30-5:40 every morning for the second week in a row and then you’re stuck lying in bed for another 20-30 minutes just waiting for your alarm to go off which is now too loud because you’re not dead asleep and then it scares you and nobody likes waking up that way.

Have I mentioned I’m not a morning person?

All I can say is praise the Lord for headphones and a good playlist. It would’ve been no fun whatsoever trying to write this in a foul mood, especially since I have so many weekend events to fill you in on! Who knew life could be so exciting? (Warning: there may be traces of sarcasm laced throughout that last sentence)

I do believe the last time we left off, we were talking about the start of the weekend. Yes, I know that Friday was filled with a retreat, but I truly have no desire to talk about. I’m still rejoicing in the fact that it’s over, so all I’ll say about it is that we made it through, girls were crying during Adoration (trust me, for teenage girls that’s a good thing), and I think most of them had fun. Friday night was pretty chaotic and fun though. Jack’s business class put on a bazaar, but I feel bad for giving Jack my bad Friday luck because it started raining at about 4. The bazaar started at 4:30. So of course things had to be shuffled and shifted, but it worked out. There were a lot of kids there though including some of my favorites, and getting to hang out with them is always the best. Plus having so many kids at school, while it may be crazy for us teachers, it means that they’re staying out of trouble on a Friday night and some of those kids definitely would’ve gotten into trouble.

It was a pretty great Friday night despite my exhaustion. And it got even better when I got to talk to one of my littles in household, Hannah! Plus a few other household sisters popped in here and there. What a gift little Hannah is. It was just what I needed after an unbelievably long day/week. And the weekend was spent almost entirely at school as well: Saturday was pretty typical which means Kelley and I grabbed breakfast from the bakery (ham and cheese croissant things aka the best. We waited half an hour just to get them fresh and it was so worth it) and we went to school where we gave Joe his cinnamon roll and I cleaned off my desk and tried to get my life together. Oops, I almost forgot Saturday night! There are really only two things to mention: 1) Joe and I finished our book! Well sort of, we still have the epilogue to read, but we finished the last chapter. And then we had another realization of how close to the end of the semester we are. After that, there was Adoration from 8-midnight at the Church as a vigil for the feast of Christ the King on Sunday for people to come whenever throughout that time. It’s just always great when I can spend a long time with Jesus, especially in the midst of a super crazy weekend.

Sunday was much much busier. There was some youth day hosted and held by our school, well really by Benque, and so from 8 am to 4:30 pm, we listened to a lot of people talk in Spanish, heard a lot of stupid polka sounding songs in Spanish, and continually moved kids off the picnic tables and bleachers to sit in the seats that were set up. It was so exhausting and it was way too long of a day for teenagers (or anyone for that matter). A lot of our students left around 3 and I don’t blame them since that’s when it was scheduled to end and a lot of them had to get home. But there were some of them who stayed the entire time, including one of my favorites, so I was really impressed and proud of them for sticking it out. We were all super glad the day ended.

I don’t really remember Monday, so hopefully I’m not missing anything too eventful. Tuesday was also pretty average except after school when Kelley and I were baking cookies with students. It was so much fun! The kids are mystified by snickerdoodles and they are super easy to make here, so we made a triple batch, one for the kids and two for our Thanksgiving dinner.

Well I’m sufficiently behind in getting this dumb thing posted due to computer complications as well as being on a field trip for 15 hours yesterday (that’ll have its own post, trust me!), so let this be enough for now! You have the promise of the field trip with the 2^nd Form Boys for next time and depending on how our Thanksgiving dinner/lunch goes today, maybe that’ll be another post. I am just cranking these out! Or at least I will try to. So Happy Thanksgiving! Hopefully that’s a belated message because I am sure you have more exciting things to do today than wait for my late blog post. To help you get in the thankful spirit, let me encourage you to enjoy your leftovers. At least you have Thanksgiving leftovers and not whatever we’re going to end up eating today. Oh it will be such an experience!

St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us.

Totus Tuus, Maria.