Hi everyone!
I'm going to use this blog to chronicle my adventures this year living in Wilmington, DE, and teaching kindergarten at the UrbanPromise School. I'm sure I'll have lots of interesting stories by the time the school year is over.
If you don't know much about UrbanPromise, you should check out their website. Basically, it's an inner-city ministry that works to help children and youth grow spiritually and academically to become the next generation of Christian leaders. It's pretty awesome, and it has had a huge impact on my life already (I worked as a summer intern for Urban Promise Camden in 2007).
School starts on the 3rd, and I have a lot of accomplish before then, namely setting up my classroom, which was a storage area last year. It needs some TLC. But hopefully I can get it looking fabulous and developmentally appropriate for the first day of school! :)
By the way, my blog is named after my favorite song ever. It's called "This Too Shall Be Made Right" by Derek Webb. Here are the lyrics so you can get an idea of what it's like:
people love you the most for the things you hate
and hate you for loving the things you can’t keep straight
people judge you on a curve
and tell you you’re getting what you deserve
and this too shall be made right.
children cannot learn, when children cannot eat
stack them like lumber when children cannot sleep
children dream of wishing wells,
whose waters quench all the fires of hell
and this too shall be made right.
the earth and the sky and the sea are all holding their breath
wars and abuses have nature groaning with death
you say we’re just trying to stay alive
it looks so much more like a way to die.
and this too shall be made right.
yes there's a time for peace, there is a time for war
there's a time to forgive and a time to settle the score
a time for babies to lose their lives
a time for hunger and genocide
and this too shall be made right.
oh i don’t know the sufferings of people outside my front door
and i join the oppressors of those i choose to ignore
i'm trading comfort for human life
and that’s not just murder, it’s suicide
and this too shall be made right
oh this too shall be made right
Good stuff, don't you agree?
I'm going to use this blog to chronicle my adventures this year living in Wilmington, DE, and teaching kindergarten at the UrbanPromise School. I'm sure I'll have lots of interesting stories by the time the school year is over.
If you don't know much about UrbanPromise, you should check out their website. Basically, it's an inner-city ministry that works to help children and youth grow spiritually and academically to become the next generation of Christian leaders. It's pretty awesome, and it has had a huge impact on my life already (I worked as a summer intern for Urban Promise Camden in 2007).
School starts on the 3rd, and I have a lot of accomplish before then, namely setting up my classroom, which was a storage area last year. It needs some TLC. But hopefully I can get it looking fabulous and developmentally appropriate for the first day of school! :)
By the way, my blog is named after my favorite song ever. It's called "This Too Shall Be Made Right" by Derek Webb. Here are the lyrics so you can get an idea of what it's like:
people love you the most for the things you hate
and hate you for loving the things you can’t keep straight
people judge you on a curve
and tell you you’re getting what you deserve
and this too shall be made right.
children cannot learn, when children cannot eat
stack them like lumber when children cannot sleep
children dream of wishing wells,
whose waters quench all the fires of hell
and this too shall be made right.
the earth and the sky and the sea are all holding their breath
wars and abuses have nature groaning with death
you say we’re just trying to stay alive
it looks so much more like a way to die.
and this too shall be made right.
yes there's a time for peace, there is a time for war
there's a time to forgive and a time to settle the score
a time for babies to lose their lives
a time for hunger and genocide
and this too shall be made right.
oh i don’t know the sufferings of people outside my front door
and i join the oppressors of those i choose to ignore
i'm trading comfort for human life
and that’s not just murder, it’s suicide
and this too shall be made right
oh this too shall be made right
Good stuff, don't you agree?
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