I know, I know...it has been a while.
I took a break from writing for several reasons. Once I started teaching, that consumed my life. Long work days, consumed with work on the weekend. I was inundated with work and very overwhelmed. I wanted to write, but I didn’t want to talk about school all the time. I lacked inspiration.
Now I feel as though my life is more interesting, so let me catch you up. I’ll start by talking about different areas of my life.
I’m in my third year of teaching.
Compared to last year, this year is great. Last year I had two preps. For those of you that aren’t teachers, that means you teach two different classes. For me, it was 4 sections of French I and 1 section of French II. That one other prep was “irking”, as the would kids say. Just when you think you are finished working for the night, you remember that you have to do the same thing for the other prep. IT.WAS.THEE.WORST. I contemplated quitting mid-year. So serious.
However this year, I only have one prep and I am using a lot of things from last year. It’s beautiful. I’m also teaching upperclassmen, which makes a world of a difference.
When I look down the road, I only see myself teaching for 2-3 more years tops. I don’t like my lifestyle as a teacher. The work-life balance is atrocious. I have no clue what I would like to do next. Just the other day, I thought about going back to France for a while. I don’t know, anything could take place.
I have a personal trainer.
Lawdy Miss Claudy. You have not worked out until you worked out with a personal trainer. It’s so serious. So, so serious.
My weight has yo-yo’ed for years, but in the past 3 years I have been on the gaining trend. Right now I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life. I’ll always be cute, but son, this ain’t cute, but I’m still cute tho.
In past blog entries I wrote a lot about my running escapades. I don’t know what it is about running. I have a love/hate relationship with it. For me, it’s mentally stimulating, like meditation, and a great challenge all rolled into one. I still have goals of running a 10 minute mile or under, but that isn’t my focus right now. Fitness is.
I lost a little bit of respect for running. I used to run miles. Serious miles. Then one day I decided to try Insanity. Let me tell you something. That ish right there...shaking my head…
What Insanity taught me is that, running isn’t the end all be all of a fitness assessment. I used to feel as though, if I could run a 10K, I will be in awesome shape. I don’t find that to be true anymore.
This go ‘round, I will measure my conditioning in different ways. For example, how long I can hold a plank, how many burpees I can do without stopping, how many full plank push ups I can do, how close my feet are to the wall when doing TRX stuff, how many pull ups I can do...things like that…
I’ve been working out pretty frequently for about a month. Taking lots of classes. Spinning is my new love. Bodypump is a close second. Kickboxing. Zumba. Keep my body guessing.
Anywho…
If I get some courage from the Wiz, I show some before and after pics or maybe share some measurements in a blog post.
My Discipleship Class
I work with a youth ministry at my school called Young Life. Don’t worry, I never heard of it until a few years ago. Check out this video if you would like more info...
One of my fellow Young Life leaders, who is a co-worker of mine as well, graduated from a discipleship class last year. The class lasted three years. When she said that, I was like, “you got that boo”. I definitely didn’t see myself committing to that.
This year my co-worker invited me to one of the classes. It was exactly what I had been looking for.
It’s like Bible Study but more in depth. There is a curriculum that is followed. There are general themes, like sin. Then there are 5 subtopics under each theme, for example, God’s remedy for sin. Each week a different subtopic is addressed. For that week, there are several scriptures that are to be read, terms to look up, and questions to answer.
I think it’s awesome.
I’m far from a theologian, but I think so many Christians walk around uneducated. And so many people try to be inspirational, encouraging, or whatever, but don’t back up what they are saying with scripture. Don’t get me wrong, I only have a few scriptures memorized, but through this class, I’m learning to look for answers to questions and concerns I have in the Bible.
What’s Christian Discipleship anyway? I found this...
“By definition, a disciple is a follower, one who accepts and assists in spreading the doctrines of another. A Christian disciple is a person who accepts and assists in the spreading of the good news of Jesus Christ. Christian discipleship is the process by which disciples grow in the Lord Jesus Christ and are equipped by the Holy Spirit, who resides in our hearts, to overcome the pressures and trials of this present life and become more and more Christlike. This process requires believers to respond to the Holy Spirit’s prompting to examine their thoughts, words and actions and compare them with the Word of God. This requires that we be in the Word daily—studying it, praying over it, and obeying it. In addition, we should always be ready to give testimony of the reason for the hope that is within us (1 Peter 3:15) and to disciple others to walk in His way.”
I’ll try to get another post in while I’m still on break.
Smooches
<3 Rae
Finally, a new entry! Yeeeeeesssss. Lol
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