Learning how to love

Written Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008

I walked into 3b this afternoon and was meet by a rush of kids telling me Jorge was crying. I know its bad to choose favourites but Jorge is definitely one of mine. He is such a cute little kid and he can read people so well. One day he could tell I was stressed out and tired of trying to get the kids to listen. He looks at me and says ¨Man kids uh miss…that’s why I´m not going to marry¨. He is always cracking me up like that. He talks like he is so much older than a little 3rd grader. It gets him into trouble though too…cause he knows everything there is to know so he gets bored in class a lot. The homeroom teacher says his mom pretty much teaches him everything. I don’t think she trusts the teachers at the school. She is also the mom that pretty much hates the missionaries. I tried talking with him to find out what happened and he tells me he forgot his homework for another class and the teacher says he can not turn it in later. I tried to calm him down and told him maybe he could talk to her about it at lunch. What he really needed though was just to cry…he sat there and cried for the first 15 minutes of math class. The crazy thing about kids is how quickly they can recuperate from things…the next thing I know he is laughing and jumping around me trying to show me what one of Santa’s elfs act like. This kid has got one amazing imagination too…he is always telling me some crazy story about something that happened to him or a place in the world he has seen. Just randomly throughout class he will run up and rap his arms around me to give me a hug.

Kids are just amazing to me. Its crazy how they can go from a crazy fist fight of anger and rage to laughing and joking with each other in under 5 minutes. Kids know the true meaning of Love that it talks about in Corinthians 13.Espically where it says love keeps no record of wrongs, love trusts, love hopes and love perseveres. Love never fails. The love that it talks about in Corinthians seems like an unattainable love. And that’s probably because it truly is in this sin filled world that we live in. But I really think we can learn a lot form watching the way children love. I know I am learning how to truly love more and more everyday from my students.

Today I was lecturing 3b about staying in their seats while I am teaching for the millionth time today and I look over at Carlos…he is sitting in the far left row of the class with the biggest most cheesy grin on his face…I can not keep my composure of the mad teacher anymore and I just start to laugh. Before I know it all my students laughing at me for laughing at Carlos. Laughter really can be the best medicine. I would rather laugh with my students then lecture them any day. I am not made for the lecturing part of teaching.