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It's Friday, Friday, Friday. . .

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There are lots of things I like about my job. I get to make up fun sentences for spelling tests. Once: Once I bought a cow with my money. Shoe: I just put my shoe on a giant's toe. Yesterday: Yesterday I ate only ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tomorrow: We will go to space tomorrow. Sometimes I think I distract the students to much with my sentences. You should try it sometime. It's a lot of fun and good for the brain. I like telling stories from the Bible. When we play Bible trivia I get to tell cool stories explaining who people are. Recently I've been seeing them as real people not just a story I read about but real live humans who had struggles and highs just like me. I hope it comes across to them as an exciting story. Today it was a bit about Nehemiah. Earlier it was about David and Solomon. Such cool people, WHO ARE REAL! We get to draw pictures. That's right, pictures for school. Who doesn't love that? Thankfully recently I have b

The Way

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I think I have found a new plan for an adventure. I want to walk El Camino de Santiago. What inspired me? I watched the movie The Way . It was good, really good. I was glad I didn't watch it with people because I shed some tears and I'm not quite to the place where I can cry in front of people. The development of characters and relationships was well done I thought. What I really liked was the route. I have always wanted to traverse a long distance, like the Appalachia trail or the Pacific Coast Trail. But this trail would be the BEST. I'd be in foreign countries, small, old towns and I'd see it all. I'm sure my experience wouldn't be quite like the movie (I wouldn't go to retrieve the remains of my son, quite smoking or loose weight) but think of the adventure! So, whose in? I'm going to go the summer after I finish summer school. That gives me two summers or so. It'll be awesome. We can brush up on our French, Spanish and what ever co