Every day, school starts off by having a school-wide devotion time in the back room. Every Tuesday, it is called chapel and runs for a whole hour, while people sing, dance, pray and have scripture. It really is entertaining watching all my students praise God. They do it in a form that I have never really encountered for such a long period of time. One Tuesday out of every month, we have what is called Super Tuesday, where worship is about an hour and a half, with lots of dancing, singing, reading, talking and praying. It is ended by a school wide breakfast, prepared by Valentine, the school chef. Well, today was Super Tuesday. I was very excited for this event, as the worship leader taught me this rap dance that I was supposed to surprise the school with and break into it at the front. Well, like any other big event that you try so hard to wake up for, my phone wasn't plugged in, and the alarm did not go off. Therefore, I woke up an hour late, missed the dance, but caught a good portion of the festivities at school.
Now, after having children wound up like this for such a period in the morning, then giving them juice and syrup, you may wonder how they get them to focus on school for the rest of the day. Here is your answer. They don't! It was possibly one of the hardest days to get them to focus on anything. However, I was saved as the entire afternoon was taken up to run some football errands around downtown Miami. What an answer to prayer!
Today we finally got the team to practice on a real field. We rented a private field to get them a little bit of experience with running on a normal size field. It was awesome to see them out there. What wasn't awesome was seeing them thinking this was a huge joke. A day away from the school must mean it is time to screw around. To put it lightly, telling someone to run, and they run is quite possibly one of the best jobs ever. You get to stay in the shade and tell them to run in the hot sun! AWESOME! With two days until the first kickoff, we still have trouble even getting them to stay in a huddle, trouble snapping a ball, can't catch a pass, can't do a running play, and can't do jumping jacks as a team. We still can't. You would think that after a few weeks, high school boys could do this, but we can't. Let me tell you how embarrassing it is to have the locals watching our practice, and just laughing. And, to top it off, the boys think something funny happened, so they stop what they are doing and laugh too, not knowing that everyone is laughing at them. Hopefully, just hopefully we will be able get everyone to say the motto properly before the first game. My goal isn't to score a point, but it is to make sure that everyone is wearing the same uniform. A uniform that we provide for them. It will be amazing if we can even do that together! (It sounds like I hate this part of my job! I don't. It just gets extremely frustrating when they don't even seem to care!)
Well, I need to get up very early in the morning to go to a training for a program the school uses. They need a representative, and it is a program that my three use quite often, therefore, I am the one that needs to learn it the most, then I can teach it to the staff that want to learn it. I am looking forward to a day away from school. Almost a "midweek weekend" if you will...
I am trying to post a video of Super Tuesday so when that happens, I will let you know!
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