Didn't get as much as I wanted to done today, kinda putzed around. I'm working on a multi-lingual worship night for the weekend, and preparing music for the BBQ Friday. Tea and Games was fun, a little quieter and less students, we played different card games involving thinking and slapping cards. A lot of the students went to the beach I think. After Tea and Games, we played another Mafia game, it was pretty cool, it came down to two townspeople and two mafia, but the mafia won. It's so hard to be a "crowd-pleaser" and be a good friend to the people I have friendships with. Like a few people I have a good relationship with were talking during mafia and I was having to be harsh with them cuz they were disrupting and not respecting the other players. Not fun.
I have been reading through Jeremiah and getting time to pray this SLI. It's very much needed. Also, it seems simple, but it makes me more relaxed, just going pretty much straight to bed after I return to my dorm, it's a good thing. Of course, tonight I stayed up til 1:30am interviewing Tim, one of the teachers, about his life, faith, and working with troubled youth for Soul Outpost tomorrow. Great testimony of faithfulness.
God has been good. I realized tonight that my focus got off today, but I've been able to be mostly relaxed and chill, despite being in charge of the blog (OH YEAH: http://lccslilithuania.wordpress.com ) among other crazyness. I'm struggling to see how to connect with individual students more and have those cool conversations, but that may just be a lack of emotional energy. Expectations are SO HARD...because I have this idea of how things should be, and they aren't, and then I have to still be positive because the students are still amazing and why I'm here. I did finally get into my office today, which makes me feel more normal and in a rhythm.
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