Back to Work

I’ll finally be going back to work today.  I will be teaching a new class to me tonight and then tomorrow I get to start back with my Saturday kids.  I’m looking forward to it.  It will be nice to feel productive again. 

          My new class is the Veterans.  My usual Friday night class has been dissolved as the youth home that we had been working with has once again at the last minute decided they don’t have any kids to send.  There are people out talking to another youth facility as I type setting them up to take the place of the others.  We’ve been trying to find a place in our schedule for this group, so that should work out pretty well. 

          I’m looking forward to working with the veterans.  This will be a new population for me, and the folks in this class have been pretty consistent.  I will be working with one of our other instructors, taking it over I think.  He does not have his certification, so a certified instructor has to be present.  The other instructor is however, is finishing his pre-requisites for medical school.  He was originally planning to be a Physical Therapist, but he had professors tell him “no” that he needed to go to medical school instead.  I believe he will still be doing physical therapy work, but he will get his doctorate and be even more qualified.

          The nice part with working with him is he is gracious about sharing his knowledge.  I don’t work with many kids with physical disabilities, so that has become my weak area.  The mental and emotional I’m on top of, plus it is my topic of study. I do need to be better qualified in the physical disabilities area though, even if just for my own peace of mind.   

          I will be picking up another new class as well, one that is new for me, and returning for the ranch.  This will be a group of students from the special education program in a local school district.  I’m really excited about this one for several reasons.  One, I will get to meet the kids, do the intakes myself, and will be working with educators to create a curriculum for the kids.  The curriculum will be based on the areas the children need to strengthen in the school setting.  I will actually know what is expected of me as an instructor and what outcomes are expected.  This will be great!

          What makes it all even better is Triple-H will occupy my Fridays and Saturdays only.  I will have Mondays thru Thursdays open for school.  Classes start on Wednesday, and the Writing Center will open the following Tuesday.  It will be nice to be back in the swing of things.  I don’t know what I’m going to do once I graduate other than go through information withdrawals. 

          Health wise I’m doing much better now.  The diet I’m on is trying, but doable.  I’m feeling ten times better, and much better than I have for a long time.  Soon I’ll be able to start adding fruits to my diet, which I am looking forward to.  Funny thing, I’m not craving sweets at all anymore, as a matter of fact, they just look kind of yucky right now.  That has never happened to me before and I’m even dropping water weight at an expediential rate, another new thing in my experiences.

          The world is a great and beautiful place, as long as that’s what we want it to be.  I thank God for the many blessings he has bestowed upon us all and I pray that in our ever hectic society we all have a chance to pause and see what great things he has given us.