Guest Speaker

Boy am I glad it's "Friday"! No school tomorrow or Monday! Woohoo! Granted, I have a bunch of papers to correct and a few lessons to plan, but still, a nice chunk of time to get all that done.

We had a great guest speaker this afternoon for 7-8th grade geography. Nadine is a nontraditional student from China at MLC. She's 51 and in her first year learning to become a teacher. You can tell she loves teaching people; her powerpoint was 99 slides! It had lots of pictures and she told stories about her life that tied in with the pictures. Unfortunately, we didn't make it very far though those slides before our time was up, but we did learn a lot about the food of China! She told us the story of how she came to be a student in here. The short version is that her son goes to high school in the Twin Cities, her husband encouraged her to learn to be a teacher in the US (he stays in China to work), and she decided to listen to God and do it. Very cool lady.