Day 2 of Surprises... I mean "Teaching"

I woke up ready to go at 5:30 am. Then thanked Him it was 5:30 and I had another half an hour or hour depending on what I thought. My only class today was at 1:30pm and I was suppose to have an hour and half in my office each day sometime. I decided 6:15 was better after the musical siren went off at 6:00am (as it does every morning) and they started to reroof the roof starting at 6am. (For some reason a jack hammer is needed. From the sounds of it, they are working hard, at least very busy at making lots of noise - but it didn't irritate me, just something funny.)

So after getting take the morning slower and getting to spend some quality, unrushed, un-paniced time with Him, I tried to Skype my family to show them my new apartment. Some technical difficulties lead to me getting a text via skype from my team leader at 8:26am saying the school just asked us to cover a class that started at 8am. "Sure, I'll give it a shot," I said. ... Perhaps a bad decision was made there. It was a pretty rough class. I got there 5 minutes before the break and the second half was rushed, out of whack, powerless, and... I got ran over. So I learned the importance of planning ahead, giving directions properly, and being authoritative at the beginning. After class, I attempted to get my office hours in but couldn't find my office. I didn't know what to ask for to ask anyone either. I did find the Japanese Department, Korean Department, and German Department though.

Lunch time and we GOT OUR LUGGAGE! (the journey of the traveling pants is complete!) Thank You! I spent some time surrendering the next class to Him and just admitting my incompetency. I also asked to speak with the authority that He has, for my students to be interested and actively participating in what the class was doing, that they would respect me, and that I could be friendly and loving and still professional. ---- Man, the class went like it was designed by His hand (because it was) It went so good. They put up name tents on their desk which helped a huge amount. They were very attentive and active the whole time. They listened, laughed, talked, and their English was good. At the break, a few students came up and asked if I was sure I wasn't going to be their teacher for the semester. They were upset when I said, "No, just today. You're new teacher will be here next week." So that made me feel good, like I was doing a good job. One student asked when my English corners were and if he could come. I feel like He did a most beautiful job shining through me. Very excited to see those students around campus. If my actual classes go like this afternoon did, I might kinda like this teaching stuff.

Afterwords, I found my office and was moved into another office. I'm now in a room with maybe 6 or 7 other ladies. The assistant dean who was moving me said, "You are the only male. Very lucky. haha." and I thought "...or very unlucky. haha." They seemed nice. One lady even looked like she had the good book on her desk, but I couldn't quite tell. ... It's gonna be a good year. :) When I left at 4pm (16:00) I walked very slowly looking around a lot to find my way back again.

No class PLANNED for tomorrow, just meetings, but we'll see what opportunities He'll bring Wednesday in China.