School

Has started, obviously.  I'm teaching literature, conversation, and guitar, as well as one private lesson, two orphanage batches of classes.  I also have a college small group I'm facilitating and my small group, plus youth group.  We've also made major progress on our organization, as you can sorta (?) see on this glitchy still-in-process website I put together this weekend.  My schedule is very tight.  A few prayer requests, until I get a proper update done:

1)Planning.  I wanted to have my course outlines by Sept. 1st, was unable to do so because they changed what I thought I was teaching halfway through my planning week.  I was technically supposed to have these things done by Sept. 14th, but I  haven't made much progress as I've been focusing on just getting the next batch of lessons planned.
2)Sick.  During planning week, I told one of my students I would record a Russian translation of a song she was sharing with me for her.  That was a month ago, and there have only been 2-5 days in that time where I have been 100% healthy.  It hasn't been the same bug, but it's starting to get old, and it's paralyzing when it comes to getting plans and work done.  I'm typing at about 40% my usual speed because of illness fatigue at present.
3)Busyness/Morale.  I've had an amazing amount of peace in these past weeks, but it's been harder and harder to get my quiet times and stay focused on what I'm doing and why I'm doing it.  My friends far away have had quite a few crises lately and I'm discouraged and feel kinda lost for emotional strength.
4)The Spiritual side:  so...the director had wanted me to take an additional 6 classes, which would have been the spiritual formation courses I did last year, which I flatly refused as breach of contract.  (We had agreed I would be teaching less hours this year...yeah, that didn't happen.)  Unfortunately, that means that I don't have the direct mandate to teach Bibble and life to my students, but if I'm not doing that, as much as I love lit., I should stop teaching at the school today.  So pray for wisdom and vision on how to incorporate those aspects into my lifestyle and into my speaking curriculum and lit. selection. Daily morning time with 9th class is a big blessing and opportunity, pray for this as well.