different things
Jul. 23rd, 2003 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terrypurple73On a current events note, I refused to watch the news or read the front-page section of the paper. It absolutely sickens me that a person would rejoice in another’s death, let alone an entire country seeming to celebrate the death of a man’s children. That seems to be the tone of the news today- the media is rejoicing that two men are dead. We killed a man’s children. I’m not condoning or forgiving or anything what any of them have done, but what are we showing with our reaction to their deaths? How would we expect Iraq to behave if their military killed George W. and his brother Jeb? I don’t want to even think about it, but I seem to keep having some sort of reactions to it....
I spent last week basically off from the Truempis, but I worked the mornings up at church- in the preschool room of Pax’s Vacation Bible Camp. I had a ball- it was a blast. I still spent time with Sophia (since she’s three, she was in my room), and Barb a bit too. I really enjoyed getting back into being ‘in charge,’ or at least in the atmosphere, of a big group of kids. I felt like I was back in a daycare setting, and it was fun to be back in that role. I loved seeing the kids learn as the week went on; you really could see it. They grasped the songs, they talked about the stories days afterward, and they understood the basic concepts of what we were talking about. And even this week, all the Truempi kids are singing the VBC songs at full volume every day. (And I have to admit, I got a tape of the songs as well, and I cranked them up and danced away the day we were done.) But part of it is weird, too. I don’t exactly feel like we are cramming religion down their throats, but I have a funny feeling that it could lean that way. It’s mostly just general stuff, and the curriculum (which is being used by half the churches in Eden Prairie this summer) isn’t denomination-specific. In fact, it’s pretty non-Catholic in some ways. It made me feel a little uncomfortable at times to sing things like, “We believe in one god; He’s the one that’s true,” and “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not rely on your own understanding.” Even if some things are straight out of scripture, that doesn’t mean that those things are the focus of Catholic teaching. Not that I am in any sort of authority position to defend what Catholic teaching even is, but.... I don’t know. It’s just different. Made me feel a little off. When all we were trying to get across is that God loves us a lot and has done a lot of amazing things. That was the gist of the whole week, really. But the moral of the story is that kids really do learn best when the curriculum is high-energy and when there is a ratio of something like four adults for eighteen preschoolers. That works out well, too.
Anyways. I’m having people over on Saturday night for this weekly movie night, so that should be fun. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve had a group of people gather at my house. We’ll see who shows up and how it goes.
And I go back to school in less than a month. Goodness. I half mean that as in, “Ohmygoodness, that’s alarming!” and half as in, “Goodness, hooray!”
I spent last week basically off from the Truempis, but I worked the mornings up at church- in the preschool room of Pax’s Vacation Bible Camp. I had a ball- it was a blast. I still spent time with Sophia (since she’s three, she was in my room), and Barb a bit too. I really enjoyed getting back into being ‘in charge,’ or at least in the atmosphere, of a big group of kids. I felt like I was back in a daycare setting, and it was fun to be back in that role. I loved seeing the kids learn as the week went on; you really could see it. They grasped the songs, they talked about the stories days afterward, and they understood the basic concepts of what we were talking about. And even this week, all the Truempi kids are singing the VBC songs at full volume every day. (And I have to admit, I got a tape of the songs as well, and I cranked them up and danced away the day we were done.) But part of it is weird, too. I don’t exactly feel like we are cramming religion down their throats, but I have a funny feeling that it could lean that way. It’s mostly just general stuff, and the curriculum (which is being used by half the churches in Eden Prairie this summer) isn’t denomination-specific. In fact, it’s pretty non-Catholic in some ways. It made me feel a little uncomfortable at times to sing things like, “We believe in one god; He’s the one that’s true,” and “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not rely on your own understanding.” Even if some things are straight out of scripture, that doesn’t mean that those things are the focus of Catholic teaching. Not that I am in any sort of authority position to defend what Catholic teaching even is, but.... I don’t know. It’s just different. Made me feel a little off. When all we were trying to get across is that God loves us a lot and has done a lot of amazing things. That was the gist of the whole week, really. But the moral of the story is that kids really do learn best when the curriculum is high-energy and when there is a ratio of something like four adults for eighteen preschoolers. That works out well, too.
Anyways. I’m having people over on Saturday night for this weekly movie night, so that should be fun. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve had a group of people gather at my house. We’ll see who shows up and how it goes.
And I go back to school in less than a month. Goodness. I half mean that as in, “Ohmygoodness, that’s alarming!” and half as in, “Goodness, hooray!”
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Date: 2003-07-23 10:57 pm (UTC)yeah. just felt like saying hi. take care of yourself, lady. I'm glad you've gotten a chance to do some rewarding work this summer. keep sharing, it's good.
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Date: 2003-07-25 11:13 am (UTC)I need to get back out to visit you and that roommate of yours some time this year.... I just don't know when yet.
Stay wonderful.
love,
~Theresa