I’ve been leading a Bible study on the book of Malachi with some guys from my church. Also, some friends of mine decided to start a blog of a more theological nature.
So look for this blog to continue to have cute pictures and ministry updates and the new blog to have allegedly insightful posts.
My first, and only post(so far), is about the the first chapter of Malachi.
Here’s a link: Malachi 1
It occurs to me that since many of you don’t know Matt, you may be thinking, “Who is this guy?” Well, here’s the link to his blog so you can find out a little bit more about him. http://kleinwelt.wordpress.com/ I think I may have to take the blame for the fact that he hasn’t posted anything in a while. Sorry everyone. 🙂
Well, it finally happened. I got talked into participating in a high school activity. The event was Human Clue and I was the criminal Coral Reef. Several of the teachers dressed up as criminals and our rooms were used like the rooms on a Clue board. The students worked in teams to solve the crime. Miss Biel, one of the high school math teachers, was the victim. At the beginning of the night she was “murdered.” Then, she followed the students around acting as her ghost. She’s a little scary!
The students had to go room to room asking each criminal for clues. We had three cards we could show them – a room card, a suspect card, and a weapon card. They could only pass to adjoining rooms. Each team had a different solution which made it even more interesting. It turns out that I did kill Miss Biel with the ballet slippers. Yikes! It was really fun.
I was Coral Reef and my weapon of choice was seastars. Think ninja stars only way cooler. 🙂 The other criminals were:
Binary Brotha – weapon of choice: dorkstick (usb stick)
The Mad Scientist – weapon of choice: dry ice
Miss Dancy Pants – weapon of choice: ballet slippers
Miss Coffee Queen – weapon of choice: mug
Mr. and Mrs. Plastic – weapon of choice: frisbee
Mr. Samurai – weapon of choice: Samurai sword
Super Girl – weapon of choice: SAT Study Guide
Our Word of the Week (WOW) this week is “career.” The story I read to the class during this lesson is What Teachers Do When No One is Looking by Jim Grant and Irv Richardson. The book is actually written for adults as a sort of defense of the teaching profession, but we used it to spark discussion about how different careers require people to have certain skills. After reading the book, I had the students write their own ideas about what teachers do when no one is looking. Here are a few of my favorites. I left their spelling and grammar as they wrote it. I think it’s more fun that way.
When no one is looking teachers reading book about cook.
When no one is looking, teachers drink coffee.
When no one is looking teachers….REST.
When no on is looking, teachers are dancing.
When no one is looking, Teachers shop.
When no one is looking, teachers eat candy.
When no one is looking teachers play games.
When no one is looking, teachers…are in the beach.
and my personal favorite….
When nobody is looking teachers grab a cup of joe and a taco.
One project we did this summer in Plymouth is a Quicktime Virtual Reality Image. My partner and I decided to do a panorama of a nearby traffic circle, though it didn’t stitch together exactly as we hoped. If you look carefully, you can see my feet in the image.
It’s just like in Back to the Future where Marty is playing the guitar and all the sudden realizes that he can’t play so well and that his arms have a translucent quality to them. He looks at his family picture and realizes that he’s almost disappeared complete from the picture.
Well see, this summer I built a time machine and messed up my personal history so I had to get my parents to kiss at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. No, wait, that’s from the movie. It was the University of Tennessee Baptist Student Union Semi Formal. No, no, that wouldn’t work…Baptists don’t dance. It must have been an ice cream social or something. They ordered one milkshake with two straws and lived happily ever after.
Click the picture if you want to see the whole panorama.