Back in the City

Well thanks to all of my faithful followers who I am sure have been reading my blog daily for the past 3 months ;) Ah, well, it's a new year for me here in Lima, so I will try to do better. I just arrived back in Lima last night (a few hours later than expected) and slept in my new room in our new house! Amanda, Eden, and I had to move a few blocks from our old house, still in the same neighborhood, because the family whose house we were living in was coming back and kinda needed their house back. So we actually moved to a bigger house and we're really excited about making it feel a little more like home this year, which we failed to do last year. Being my mother's daughter I of course unpacked all my suitcases and just about every box I brought here in June until about 3am last night after an already long day... not exactly what my sister would do :) I'll post pictures of the new house once it's set up and homey.

Now that I am here it actually feels good to be back.. the past few days you could say I have felt somewhat hesitant and it was a tough transition, even more so than at Christmas, which I wasn't expecting. I really enjoying being with my family a lot, seeing friends, and truly relaxing for probably the 1st time since Christmas, so that made it hard to say goodbye and come back. But I know God has me here for this next year to fulfill His purpose for calling me to this crazy city, whether I always see what that purpose is or not. So I'm looking forward to not being a 1st year teacher anymore (!!!) and actually having a little bit of experience to help me start off this new school year. I will start school just for teacher meetings this Thursday and classes actually start August 10th... it was supposed to be the 6th but I just found out it got pushed back for some Swine Flu thing.. who knows. So we will go on a staff retreat next weekend instead of starting school. This year will definitely be different from last year and I'm not quite sure what to expect.. my classes have changed some, so I will still have some 1st year teacher syndrome :( I'll be teaching 7th grade Life Science, 8th Algebra 1, 9th Bible, 10th Biology, and 11th/12th Chemistry... pray for me! :)

Well I'm going to go reacquaint myself with the city and the wonderful Peruvian food and do lots of shopping for my new house! Oh, and if you are interested in my new address here just let me know, since it has changed since last year.