Hallelujah

So in case you haven't heard the news, we finally got a 6th teacher for the eighth grade... such a HUGE answer to prayer I can not even begin to tell you. I had prayed all last week specifically that we would hear about a new teacher by Friday-- and then the Lord one-upped me because not only did we hear on Thursday, the new teacher actually showed up on Friday! Today (Monday) was our first day with her teaching and it was GLORIOUS.

I had 34-36 students in each class and although by most standards this is still huge it felt tiny. Also I went from five 40 minute periods a day to three 75 minute periods a day which made it so much easier to breathe/think/do everything other than run around like a chicken with my head cut off.

Even bigger answer to prayer, next Monday we are getting a 7th teacher who will also teach math and supposedly I will only have 24 students in my class. That is less than half the number of students I started the year with, if you will recall. 24 is a piece of cake. A breeze. A pie in the sky. And so on and so forth. I am pumped!

Best part of today-- some of my really terrible students, who were cheering last week about getting rid of me as their teacher, begging me in the hallway to PLEASE let them come back to my class. Har har har.