It is November, after all. The trees are bright yellows and oranges. My birthday just passed along with the pumpkins and trick-or-treaters. And I've worked for a month in my new job - which I LOVE!
The process was a little long. I interviewed at one school only to find out that the position was not bilingual or ESL, so I interviewed at a second school where I felt really good about the position even though it wasn't ESL either, until the first school called back with an offer for an ESL position. But when I interviewed for that position, I discovered that I would spend most of the day yelling at loud children and the rest would be spent watching a few bilingual students put on headphones and work in a computer lab...not at all what I was looking for.
So I took the job at the second school. I felt really good about it, which was strange since it wasn't what I wanted initially. I work in a fifth grade math classroom as a teachers' assistant. I help out each of the three fifth grade teachers here, but I work especially with a Chinese student, Brandon. When I'm not running copies or cutting out shapes or stapling artwork to a bulletin board, I get to write ESL lessons for Brandon. I get to work one-on-one with him, and the school district even gave me a license for Rosetta Stone in Chinese! So I have been able to work on my language-learning even now - where I least expected it.
God's hand has been on me, providing me with good friends and a joyful work-environment. Then there are the added blessings of an ESL student all to myself and Rosetta Stone for free! I could not have imagined this a year ago. My ideas were totally different, but I have peace about where God is taking me. He is leading one step at a time. And His blessings are my proof that He still has great plans for me and that I am exactly where He wants me for now.
Remember your many blessings, the big ones and the small ones. They are gifts from God, all of them.
And may He continue to bless you even more,
Diane
