Good, good friends!

Now, THESE are awesome friends!  This is Bob and Diana Clark, who live, here, in Hobart.  However, they've been working for the past year (+ some weeks) in Kazakhstan!  They both came home for a couple of weeks in July and Diana was home another couple of weeks in October, but all the rest of the time they've been gone.  Bob and I went to school together in Japan in the 8th grade, and Diana has been married to him long enough to be as goofy as we are.  We ate at the Mexican restaurant tonight where Don and David and Dorothy and I used to go every Sunday.  That was tricky, as I haven't been there in 8 months.  I survived it and enjoyed the time with Bob and Diana.  I needed them to help me get over that hurdle.  I have a gift certificate for there and haven't gotten around to using it; maybe I can do that, now.

The high school called to ask me to teach ALGEBRA this Friday!  I told them there was no way I could teach Algebra, but I could keep the kids from starting fires; they said that's all they really wanted as many of the kids will be out for a track meet, anyway.  This ought to be a trip, but I'm braced for it.  I 'babysat' this teacher's class for an hour the first day I subbed, so at least I know my way to her room.  Education is really a different animal than it was back in 'the day.'  I'm glad to have the work, so I give thanks and ask God to help me to have some kind of positive impact on these kids.  If they give me any heartache, I'll make them do the multiplication tables; THAT I can do, and I'm finding that they really need the practice.  I guess they all have calculators on their phones, but I think they should still know them.