Week 4: FINISHED!

Wow...So week 4 just blew by super fast. It's weird because I feel like my days are long in EPA but my weeks go by so So SO fast! What a blessing this week has been. I actually meant to blog in the middle of the week but since I didn't... well I think you know what kind of week I had! :p So let me debrief myself through this blog ;)

First of all as I told you from my last blog, this week was my week to teach RYAA, and I happened to be teaching tennis (my favorite/only sport that I can decently play Hahaha) and I also had to do crossing duty. Well what a week I had. If you don't know my schedule yet let me explain what a normal week looks like.
5:30am- Up and ready for work, breakfast, and devotion time with the Lord
7:15am-Prayer with staff
7:30am-Watch the kids/Morning crossing duty if its your week
8am-9:40am-Language Arts
9:40-10am-Snack time (maybe a small break if its your assigned day)
10-11:10am-Math
11:10-12pm- World Around Us
12-12:50-Lunch
1-2pm-Work Shop (Arts and Crafts on Mon. and Wed. and Baking on Tues. and Thurs. for me!)
2-4:45pm-Relax, work on lesson plans etc.
4:45-5:30pm- Send Kids Home
5:30pm-Home, meetings, and/or bible study till any time :p

NOW when you teach RYAA cut out 2-4:45pm of relaxing and replace that for ONE week of whatever you teach(Chaos :p). So that means you have been teaching non-stop for 5 days in a week.

I'm not gonna lie. This chaotic week has been the most rewarding week for me. It has been my toughest week yet, but God has taught me so much, and I had a lot of fun teaching these kids. I worked with SAIL and non-SAIL kids. I specifically worked with the little kids for tennis camp. I had so much fun since my group was smaller. The only thing is that you have to be pumped with energy or at least act like you are pumped with energy (<~ me).
The best part of the week was getting the chance to rally(hit back and forth) with one of my students. I felt so happy! I mean he already knew a little tennis, but he significantly improved over the week. What a blessing. And then when I left today, one of my non-SAIL students said good bye to me. They were so cute and so impacting. I hope that these kids had fun during tennis camp. Hopefully I was not too rough on them. Hahahaha
On top of teaching tennis camp, I had to do the usual. Plan for next week lesson plans, teach arts and crafts, make last minute ideas on what to make in baking class, and prepare myself for whatever fun activity we were gonna do for Friday. This Friday happened to be field day. So as you could imagine, today I spent many hours out in the field chasing after kids, and then much more time chasing kids and balls around on the court. But I had so much fun. So here is a pic of the kids I worked with. (I might get in trouble...hahaha)