Adventures with Sully

Every Friday at our school we have Chapel services. It's something the kids look forward too and its a great outreach program. Parents and church people come and we just have a good time. We have already won one lady to the church through this. After we sing, show some pics of the week on the screen, I try to teach a lesson and we try to make it as close as we can get it to a church atmosphere. It has been awesome!! Anyway, I started doing something fun, once a month for the kids. Every month, I will go visit a place of history and or signifigance(if that is how you spell it) and make a fun adventure. We showed the first one a while back and the kids seemed to love it. We werent sure what to call it, so we just came up with "Adventures with Sully". So here for your enjoyment is the first "Adventures with Sully"!!! Let me know what you think! I am still perfecting my editing capabilities so bear with me. See ya!!

Interesting - Most Dangerous Animals

These are the top ten most dangerous animals in the world ranked by estimated number of human fatalities per year. I thought this was interesting when I saw it. Check it out.

Animal Fatalities per year

10. Shark - 30-100 people killed per year

9. Jellyfish - 100 people killed per year

8. Hippopotamus - 200 people killed each year

7. Lion - 250 people killed each year

6. Bee - 400 people killed each year

5. Elephant - 600 people killed each year

4. Crocodile - 2,000 people killed each year

3. Scorpion - 5,000 people killed each year

2. Snake - 100,000 people killed each year

And last but not least, Yes the Mosquito is the worlds

most deadliest animal killing over 2 million people per year.

Its not the big things in life that brings you down, its the small things.

Back to School

BACK TO SCHOOL!

Well it is Tuesday and Christmas break is over. School started on Monday and it is back to the grind. The first day was like walking onto a distant planet. The kids minds were so far away that they acted like they have never been in a school before. All the chocolate and hype wore off today though. Everybody was actually really good. It is almost finals week so they had better be! Our school has been in operation since 1970 and runs right now 128 kids. 6th, 7th, and 8th grade are my specialties. Every day grading almost 100 papers sometimes drives you nuts. But I seriously love it though. (Except when they bring grease stained, chocolate covered, dropped in water papers that you just look at never wanting to touch). Getting to be a part of these kids lives is so awesome. If I can affect them in any way at all in life, my job will have been totally worth it. I have really learned to listen a lot better, because they LOVE to talk.

The math we are learning is getting a little difficult for them though. I was looking at it and I was like whhooooaaaa. We are learning about quarterly compound interest in 7th grade. I think when I was in 7th grade I was counting " how many donuts are in the box", or who could multiply the fastest. lol. Today they are finding out how much they would profit from 4% interest per quarter if they had $50,000 in the saving account. I was like "wow". If I had this when I was a kid I would be a millionare now. Wishful thinking anyway. Here are some pics of a class I teach after school that helps kids with math problems, health and whatever they are stuck on. Right now I hear another donut calling.

See ya!!

A lot of Time

I just got back to my office from having lunch at . (Sorry Than). Chicken Burrito, nothing but chicken, rice, cheese and a tortilla. It was BOMB! The place is so good. Its right by a Panda Express, Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, Coldstone, Jamba, and anything else you can think of that will make you fat.

If some of you are wondering why I have been posting so much, it is because I am on Christmas break from teaching school and I have TIME. Posting will probably slow down in about a week because I will be back to the teaching grind. The new quarter is getting ready to start in a couple of weeks so I have to get ready for report cards so forth so on. It has been so nice this week to be able to catch up on stuff. A typical day in the classroom will be from about 6-5 and by the end of the day, you have to go home and everything is closed so you don't have time to do much.

Actually becoming a teacher has helped me a whole lot because I have learned to budget my time better. You can't just show up at 12:00, come in and say "Whats up students"? You actually have to use your brain, get up and come to work. And after the 8th cup of coffee I am ready to go for the day. Seriously It has helped a whole lot though. I will be honest with everybody. Since I have started teaching, I have started to care more for people. I have actually started listening more to what people have to say. I didn't realize how important some stuff is to people when it may be small to you and you just shut them off. Now please don't get me wrong, I know when somebody comes up to you and starts telling you how thick their eyeglass lens's are that it is kind of hard to stay focused, but still it is important to them and I need to pay attention to what they are saying.

Isn't that kind of like when God talks to us? He talks and talks and talks and sometimes it takes him saying it for the third time for us to wake up and say "Huh what was that?" I think we go through so many problems sometimes, and God is just sitting up there speaking in that still small voice saying " Just listen and I will tell you what to do".

My dad preached an awesome message last night that when you hear and listen to the voice of God, the word of God becomes active in your life and begins building a house he can dwell in. What is the difference between the voice of God and the Word of God? The Bible in Genesis says the voice of God walked in the garden. Isn't that awesome? In John it says that " In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God". Since the word is God, when God speaks and we listen, his progressive word and plan becomes established in our life and begins to build Gods house. That is one thing I want to improve on this year. I want to listen every time God says something as best I can. I guess life sometimes has a way of blocking the voice from coming in clear, but no matter what comes or goes, Gods voice is always there.

Have an awesome night!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everybody out there!! I hope this year is filled with great expectations and exciting things for you, your familys, churches, and etc. You may have had a bad year last year. I can't tell you why, but I can tell you that seasons change!! Thats one great thing about life - is that no matter who you are, seasons change. Someone once said, "no one is an exception to life". That is so true. Did you have a bad year last year? Hold on, the seasons changing. Did you have a good year last year?....... Try not to think about that to much....lol

Brian Allard I am still praying that you guys get a Starbucks there this year sometime. Dustin, Kary's is gonna be doing awesome this year. And to everybody else, have an awesome and great new year!

Funny

I laughed when I saw this. Thought I would share.

New Flier Design

Here is something I am currently working on for our church's young mens leader group. Mighty Men of Valor.