A new week

Today, I taught my first class as the lead teacher. Then, looking at the schedule, I saw that any time I am teaching, I am the lead. At one point, one of the permanent team mentioned that they knew I could do it. This was definitely encouraging for me because I knew I could do it too, but I was still nervous. Furthermore, my first class was me and another of the new team. I had no permanent team member with me a safety net. It was all us.

And we did it. I even had a participant say I was a good teacher, which encouraged me.

Considering she was a teacher herself.

The new schedule allows for some time off. I have Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning off. I figure this is prime time to catch up on my journal that I have to keep, write up a post about the weekend (with what details I can) and maybe include a photo, and perhaps draft my email list email. I always have some reading to do, and a few other things that are always of high importance.

Also, I think I might clean our room. It’s pretty much a disaster.

So, the minor inconveniences: I separated part of my fingernail late Sunday. I hit my finger, it started to hurt. I looked down, and even in the dark I could see blood under and around a small portion of my fingernail (my thumb at that). Additionally, the last few nights have left me with an increasing number of bug bites. I have them everywhere from my arms to the palms of my hands.

The good things: One of the permanent team washed my clothes on Sunday. Course I had to dry them in my little patio/drying room (I asked if they even HAD dryers in this country. I guess they do, but they use a lot of power and no one wants that), but they were dry by morning. So now I have clean laundry that is just a bit stiff, but man does it smell good. Also, I think I am finally getting better from whatever bug was making its home in my stomach. Perhaps the charcoal pills I took helped.

Today in class as I stood up there and explained something to everyone, I got an overwhelming feeling.

An overwhelming feelings of satisfaction.