"Shaken'
But Not
Stirred"
What an exciting week! October 15th, 7:08am, 6.6 earthquake hits Big Island and Maui, affects felt as far as Honolulu. As I lay on my bed, eyes glazed wishing for more sleep...I was shakin' out of bed from my swaying ceiling fan and convulsing windows. I ran for the door frame and held on for the experience. Grand times in deed. A second quake hit minutes after causing more door frame hugging on my part. Funny how the mind and body go blank at first with confusion as to why the earth underneath is moving. Exciting and yet scary at the same time. Definitely makes one realize how small they are and how big God is! Alas the shaking has stopped, power is back on and flooding has stopped. Some of my students are still experiencing some emotional trauma, worried another will hit. I had many notes asking to NOT speak of the earthquake days after due to nightmares and crying from certain students. Scary for the little ones especially. Typhoons, blizzards, earthquakes, centipedes, splinters, hang nails...what's next?!!
This Tuesday Nacho Libre comes out on video! How excited I am in deed. Tight like spandex it is, it is! We shall be having a little viewing Wednesday night hopefully with laughter and smiles aplenty. I begin work at the bookstore this Wednesday as well which shall add some excitement...shall be fun working with adults from time to time. Kids are great don't get me wrong...but sometimes the soul craves more adult conversation throughout the day. I have one boy in my class that is testing me to say the least. Found myself yelling TWICE last week! I don't yell!!!!! I need prayer and restraints of some kind before I do some serious damage :)
Reading a great book..."The Deity Formerly Known as God". Another reason I look forward to my bookstore experience...30% off! Had CPR training last night which allowed me to practice my chest thrusts and my pucker-ability. Hopefully I'll never have to put such training into practice. Had me a fine and delish falafel sandwich at Cafe Mambo which left me craving more from their vegetarian enhanced menu. Gotta love Paia restaurants! Power to the veggie hearted :) AND looking forward to some fine company both in November and February. Grand times a'comin.
posted by kc @ 3:12 AM
5 Comments:
Oh how we miss you and love you!
How could you pass up a 50% off?
DAD
Glad to hear that everything is okay. I'll email soon. I will have time because we have fall breatk this week! Yeah! Talk to you later.
Sara
Wow, Karen~
Sounds like you're hav'in some real adventures! What fun! About the little monster~boy, yay for a character-building experience! lol. I'm sure he will get easier once he realizes how cool his teacher is. ;)
-Steph
Hi Karen. : ) How are you? Earthquakes! That would scare the life out of me. I'm glad you had fun, though. Just thought I'd say Hi!
(P.S. That book sounds amazing, just by the title. From what I've read about it, it sounds like something I need to read. I have a hard time figuring out what God is like, and reconciling Bible-God was My-Idea-of-God because I sometimes don't want to believe He has certain characteristics.)
Have a good one!
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