WOW

In playing with my Facebook timeline, I realized that I hadn't done anything with this blog...not that anyone really noticed. But I didn't know I had it linked to Facebook, so maybe I should update it.

Since this post there has been so much that has happened. I have a new granddaughter, the pain I experienced from accident has now disappeared and my allergies are history.

I've been able to connect with my Croatian roots and have been able to find more Croatians throughout the world. I even have begun to have Slavic children show up in my classes....what a blessing to begin to have other second generations in my life. They get it!

Fall Break!

Yeah! Fall break has finally arrived, except here in Phoenix it is still so warm that the air conditioner is still on...oh well! My car is full of damage from the hail storm that hit here earlier this week. It could have been worse....we could have had hail damage to our apartment and we didn't.

First Quarter of the new school year

I can't believe that the first quarter is over already! It certainly has been an interesting first quarter, but I have already seen the growth in my students. Students who weren't ready, can't put down, "Diary of a Young Girl."

I love it when I have to tell them to put their books away, so that they can focus on what we are doing at that moment.

With Phoenix still experiencing triple digits, I hope that when the temps cool down, the students' interest in reading won't cool off.

Summer Break is over ALREADY!

My summer is over and I am not sure when it ever started. I certainly did travel a little (emphasis on little) .... Sedona and Pinetop. I taught summer school and now I am facing the first week back to school. I wish I knew where the time went.

Well, another school year, another group of munchkins to corrupt!

Braco

I have read and seen many things about his man from Croatia Today, he is going to be in Sedona and I will be able to experience this myself. Just the idea of meeting someone from the country my grandparents came from....I was never able to visist with them because of it still being under communist rule while they were alive.

The end of another school year

Only a few more weeks and the school year will be over. It seems like the year just started. So many things have changed, so many things have happened and it seems like it all happened at lightening speed.

Prayer Works

On Friday night, I was so exhausted from a very trying week. I noticed that there was an earthquake in Japan and was a little releaved that would account for some of the things that had occurred.

On Saturday morning, my roommate told me that there had been an earthquake. Since I had seen the info about the Japapn earthquake, I commented that I knew about it. That is until I walked into the living room and saw the destruction in Chile. I didn't realize that the earthquake she was talking about was the one in Chile.

I noticed that several groups online, were beginning prayers for the people already effected by the damamge and prayers for those that were going to be in the path of the tsunami. I watched and waited, like all the rest of the world, and was so releaved when we saw very minimal damage.

I remember watching newscasters saying that some people will critize them for making this seem worse than it ended up being, but the first island hit...did have damage, so the potential for Hawaii having huge waves, etc. was very real.

Whether you agree or not, prayer worked in this case....at least that is my opinion.