1) I work at a different middle school from the one I was at for the last two years. I'm still in the same position -- Learning Support Services -- except I'm concentrating on just Grade 7s, whereas before I was servicing International Students, students with autism, and students with cerebral palsy across all three grade levels. My caseload this year includes one visually impaired student and the rest are mainly students with learning disabilities, moderate and mild intellectual disorders, and chronic health. Our entire LSS staff is new, but we each bring various levels of experience and knowledge, so I'm confident in the strength of our team.
2) I'm starting my second year serving youth group at church. This year, we've called ourselves SOAR for "Sold Out and Radical." The direction we want to take is going to be more God-centred; the focus had always been on God, but now we want to challenge students to take a dive into really making a serious commitment to growing in Christ in their every day lives, rather than just skimming the surface of God's character. Last year we had a number of students who invited a big number of their friends and just hung out at youth, but most without caring for the youth group's main purposes. The leaders still enjoyed being with these teens because of who they are individually, but because a lot of these students were just there for the sake of being out of the house, we had to deal with a lot of discipline issues. As a leadership team, we struggled with the notion of "weeding" out kids by changing the focus of our program, but we hope that with God's blessing, we are able to provide a safe environment of in-depth and life-changing experience to the youth. Because there are a few other youth groups in Mission, and some of our youth attend those other youth groups as well (one group is as big as over 100 students), we want to encourage them to continue going to those ones.
3) On the Sunday of Labour Day weekend, my sister and I went to PNE. This is the first time I've been to PNE with D and the first time we double-dated with my sister! I promised not to grill her boyfriend too much, but I'm glad that he's just such a friendly and social guy anyway that I wouldn't have to turn up the interrogation quite as much as I have on her previous boyfriends (and my husband). He also scored some brownie points when he won a doll for her.
In the game where he won this, he had to shoot a whiffle ball at a stack of plastic cups completely off the stand; he won on his second attempt. It was quite heavy, but he lugged it around in the rain anyway. If he charged $10 for every question and comment that he received about the cow, he would have over $100. I won a stuffed toy for myself, winning in the Whack-A-Mole game. 
It's my favourite game along with the horse-racing game, which my sister won this year; she got a stuffed bear with underwear over his head.
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wow, that is a big cow.
hope d's ok!
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