Overwhelmed

Sorry there was no blog post yetserday. I was really caught up with a lot of things. So i didnt get a chance to blog last night. yesterday, was a frist morning back from Daya Dan in while. I was teaching mongol yesterday and I knew he knew a lot of his times table from 1-7, Mongol usually repeats his times table over and over and has been working on it for the past few months. So yesterday I thought I'd challenge him a little and teach him something new. So I taught him his 9s table, 10s table, and 11s table which are all fairly easy. There's a trick to learn your nines table which i was taught when I was younger that made it one of my favorites mulitiplication table to do. You put out your hands and for an example if it was 3x9 than you count three fingers over put that finger down and you only have 2 fingers on the right side of that and 7 on the other side... which means 3x9=27! Anyways I taught Mongol that and he freak'n loved it! It was so exciting for him. He looked at me and was like... you're the best teacher ever! I learn things so quick from you, while other teachers explain too much! hahaha! In all honesty I just taught him simple times table... 10s, 11s.... not hard at all. But it was nice that he praised me anyways. I was extremely proud of him because now he knows all his times table from 1-11, all he has to learn is 8x8 and he knows it all. I don't know why they never taught him his 9s,10s, and 11s earlier. But he was excited for learning something new. We also did geography yesterday. I drew on the whiteboard the world and numbered countries and oceans and had him tell me what the countries and oceans were. He learned 16 spots yesterday! It was exciting, of course vietnam being one of them. haha. Choir practice was in the afternoon yesterday and I brought my video camera and got it recorded. It was extremely stressful and not as fruitful as I wished. Everyone had an input on an appropriate tempo and it didnt help, especially with all the music we had to get through before wednesday. Last night I figured, it's been a crazy day... let's go out for a treat. So Briana, Caitlin and I went to MCDONALDS! believe or not there's one here! And it's sooooo nice! Air conditioned and really high class. We sat in there as long as we could because it seriously felt the closest to home that we've been to for a while. It was amazing! I had some crazy Chicken Maharaja Burger. Which was the closest thing they got to a big mac. I was suprised I was able to eat last night... not only was I able to eat I ate that burger, two fries and a coke. After not being able to eat for about 4 days! By they way,... I lost a lot of weight during those four days. it's scary. Everyone here notice it, the resturant manager, the MC sisters, my friends... they're like WHOA. But i'll gain it back. My appiteite is slowly coming back. Well this morning was another day at Daya Dan. I taught Nisha today and she's always a handful. She would always run around the class room and loose focus so easily. BUT... today I brought some washable crayons (thanks to Ryan), and they're able to write on walls and wash off! So I did my lesson plan on the wall today! All the kids in the class room was jealous of Nisha and wanted to work with me today because we got to draw on the walls. I drew out images and made her find the color I asked for in the crayon box to color in the image, than I drew shapes. She has no problem with drawing squares and circles but she can't draw triangles! She always draw a square when I ask for a triangle so we spent a lot of time on that. Counting the sides over and over and trying to find things that are triangle for examples. Than I drew on one side shapes and on the other side shapes all scrabbled up so it's not directly across from the matching shape and she had to draw a line to the matching shapes. I think she really enjoyed that and everyone was suprised that she did it without mistakes because before when we did this on paper she couldnt do it. It must be something about drawing on walls! I had her practice writing her name and Nisha always wrote her S backwards so we specifically worked a while on how to write an S. Afterwards I went downstairs and helped with children music time. While all that was going on the microphone keep cutting out. The anetana to the cordless microphone receiver broke so now the microphone isn't working. If anyone have an old microphone, that plugs into "a microphone input?" haha, and want to donate it please try to get that to Corina Jones before she leaves to Kolkata! It's greatly needed. Because we use the microphone for mass also and ... kind of need it. Well, after awhlie trying to work out the technology- we just went without. I taught the kids, Shut the Door keep out the devil. And everyone really enjoyed it. It was fun, always always.
This afternoon I arrived early at choir practice to teach a spainar how to play the songs that we were doing to Taize and mass so he can play along with me. We practiced an hour and a half before choir practice and by the time everyone came the music was finally coming together. Choir practice was really great! We went through all the music for Taize and mass part! Sr. Johanna Ark came and help teach the harmony and she wrote the song that was dedicated to Mother and taught it to us. It's so beautiful! I wish everyone could hear us! I'm really proud of the group and how full and beautiful it sounds! it's so pure and AWWWWWWWWE! i love it!

Well, I really need to get going. I need to run a couple of copies for the Sisters and find some music which I'm extremely worried about because I can't find it on the internet! I had it in my blue adoration music book but... I think I left that with Lauren Irish or at the Newman Center. I'm looking for the song; I am The bread of Life! Not the version by Suzanne Toolan. But the lyrics goes... I am, the bread of life,... all who eat this bread... shall never die. I am, Gods love revealed, I am broken... that you might be healed! SO IF ANYONE has the lyrics or music for that! PLEASE email it to me! I need it pronto! I'm singing it solo tomorrow (which means tuesday tonight for those in states) for a prayer around Mother's Tomb with all the volunteers and MC sisters and I'm PRAYING that St. Anthony comes to my intercession so I can find the music to it or remember it. So if you can get it to me if you have it... I'll really really appreciate it! Alright, Take care and God bless! I'll try to keep you posted as much as I can. I've just been so extremely busy on top of being sick a couple days ago, but i really appreciate all the prayers! God bless and may we all be united through the Immaculate Heart of Mary to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.


Anyways, God bless you!