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Saturday, 19 September 2009

God answered prayers even before I prayed

the month of school ended, it was good... tiring but good... and very much blessed... and i do experience mad strength from God each day because I am mad tired every day running on an average of 4-5hours of sleep and using my voice for 5 hours everyday...
one burden that i had as i began teaching is to share the Good Word with the Chinese International students... there were so many of them... but yet none of them are believers... and when I see them at chapel, they look so uninterested at His words... I wanted to invite them to Lamb (my Chinese speaking highschool/college fellowship) but I wonder how...
today a student of mine came, God brought her, she didn't even know I go there... I'm pretty sure she's going to go back to school monday and go tell all her friends "I HEARD MR LU SPOKE CHINESE!!!!!" I hope that she will continue to come and even bring her classmates with her...
On the drive back home... I was again burdened to share this great love that I've receive with my students... and I was thinking HOW??? Then i thought the students are probably so turned off by chapel because they are turned off by the English Language, because to these international students, English = work, English = not fun... and i thought... how bout I start a Chinese chapel at my school... maybe like a once a month thing? I do want to, and my heart began to burn (the passionate kinda burn)... this will my prayer for the next few months, to see if the school would consider that, and i have enough power (i am sure if this is God's will I will have) but the commitment to do that.... i hope i can start soon, so these seniors will not graduate without having God touch their hearts at all....

Friday, 11 September 2009

i just wonder...

lately... i'm involved in two contradicting theology and it does frustrates me... one which i strongly believe is "We keep doing what we are doing (esp it's God's ministry) unless God says stop"... the other is "We pray and do nothing unless God specifically indicates so"
truthfully speaking... the second one frustrates the heck out of it, it even comes to the point of being annoyed by it... why you ask... because for one, why stop something that's good just because there's no specific answer... i mean it's not like I pray every morning to ask God if I should do devotions this morning and if there's no response I don't do it.. or we pray if we should have a Sunday service this Sunday and if God doesn't answer we just don't do it... for me... if it's a ministry, and God has shown proof that He bless this ministry... then just do it! continue to do it until God sets a fire or earthquake or speaks to you personally and say don't do it.... there shouldn't be a struggle... I don't see Paul stopping to pray to God if he should continue to preach the gospel... no he just kept going, if something stopped in his path... God guided him to somewhere else... but in no where did Paul just stopped and ask "Hey God, should I continue to preach in your name?"
say I'm bias.. but I am, because I've not heard about the other side... so maybe I need to

Sunday, 30 August 2009

it's almost monday AGAIN

don't get me wrong, i do love my job, but i still dread waking up in the morning and i dread monday... xanga-ing right now is my escape from work on sunday night, even though i should be preparing for the week..... thing about being teacher other than other typical 9-5 job is that there's more hard work behind the scene than your "work" time, if i can not prep and not grade assignments, teaching will be mad fun.... but then again.... if there's no good prepping ahead of teaching, teaching will be a drag as well....

i wanted to post picture of my classroom but have yet to find time to charge my camera and bring it to school.... will do that soon, esp with my "Mr. Lu" sign outside my door, my excellent looking bulletin boards (because I didn't do it but adele did), my work station (complete with desk, monitor, wireless printer, a fridge, and more), my tiny lecture area because of the huge projector screen and the weird "L-shaped" room....

all in all...... it's good..... just not prepping... here's my to-do list for next week just to keep myself in check... seems like there's a lot more to be done before i can sleep today.... Thank God it's a 4 day work week~~~ wheww~~~ (and followed by another 4-day work week WOOHOO!!)

Monday
Govt
o Grade & Hand back CE (done)
USH
o Grade & Hand back CE (done)
Euro
o How to write a thesis
o Write an outline

Tuesday
Govt9
o Ch1 review ws (done)
USH
o DUE movie ws
Euro
o DUE ch11 reading journal
o 100 years war ppt

Wednesday
Govt
o Ch 1 quiz (done)
o Ch2 reading ws
USH
o Reading & movie quiz
o Ch 4 ppt
Euro
o Ch 11 test
o Ch 12-13 reading journal handout
Thursday
Govt
o Documentary viewing questions
Euro
o Renaissance ppt

Friday, 14 August 2009

i'm listed on ratemyteacher.com

man~ this is way too funny being listed on ratemyteacher.com and at least it was a positive comment!! woot
just finished a 4-day 30hour training course to teach AP European History, dang was it an overwhelming course... hopefully i won't overwhelm my students next year which is close to impossible.... i'm getting super excited about this teaching thing, and the scary thing is it is going to start in 10 days, with meet the parents next saturday!!!

Thursday, 23 July 2009

the perfect birthday

it was a good birthday... indeed it was....... had a good night sleep... a total of 11hours. Woke up early 6:45am after a couple of perfect snooze (starting from 6:30am), took a fat old dump and the system felt awesome, took a shower, had breakfast, packed lunch... hit traffic on the way to work (that's the down part), but wasn't late for work... had a good sharing and praying with fellow teachers for the morning, started teaching my first class... coworkers jumped in suddenly and sang happy birthday with balloons and home-baked cake and all... pleasantly surprised but not overdoing it (just the way i like it), students were sweet and sang happy birthday in Korean... had a light good lunch from the sandwich i packed in the morning, danced for 2 hours (part of work) and played dodgeball for an hour (part of work as well, how great is it that you can throw rocket balls at kids w/o getting any "consequences"), had dinner with fav girl, strolled from restaurant to movie theaters but decided not to watch a movie because a) no good movies b) tickets are too expensive... strolled to EB games next door and played free demo wii games (yes we're cheap like that)... drove to fav girl's place... decided on a movie on netflix watch instantly... a crappy romantic comedy but oh wells... played a couple rounds of spider/free cell while her internet was down half way through the movie.... drove home... chatted with mom for a little... took another shower..... checked email and my overloaded facebook wall board... posting this blog... going to sleep...

and that's my kinda perfect birthdays