Snow day!!

First of all, we had a snow day today!!! We got a ton of snow over the last 24 hours and they actually closed schools in the Madison School District (which meant no practicum) and my class got cancelled! I actually woke up feeling like crap because I caught a cold, so I spent the day laying on my couch. It helped a lot and I felt a lot better by Primetime tonight.

Practicum started yesterday! It feels weird to not have a partner and to be in a different classroom, but I think it's going to be a good semester! I really like my cooperating teacher and the kids in my class are really great! It's a 2/3 class, but I'm only with the 3rd graders for the first hour of the morning, and then they split up for math and reading. It'll be interesting teaching math this semester...a lot different than literacy! Just yesterday, I was helping a student with a math problem and I had trouble explaining and helping her with the question. I knew what I wanted to say, but I couldn't think of how I could say it so she would understand and so I wasn't just giving her the answer. Hopefully I'll learn how to do that better!

Crusade is going really well. We had our Women's Valentine's Dessert last night and it went pretty well! We had about 60-70 women and Lori's talk went well. Big Break planning is going really well too! We have 52 people signed up already!! Last year we had 38 people go, so we've passed that way up and have the bus filled!! I'm really looking forward to this trip. I think it's going to be awesome, and I think God is going to really move that week!

So, this week was Valentine's week. I'm pretty used to not having a valentine every year, so it's nothing new for me to be alone (although I hung out with Katie from SDSP, so I wasn't completely alone!). I actually was fine with it until recently. But as more and more people get engaged (I know of two in the last week!) and other people get together, it makes it hard to be satisfied with being single. Tonight at Primetime, the guys gave all the women flowers, told us how much they appreciate us and think we're beautiful, and a couple of guys sang a song. It was really nice, but it also made me wish I had someone personally telling me that. They talked about how God finds us beautiful and that's all we need. I really do believe that and am so thankful that He does, but I still long for a guy to tell that to my face. One of my friends asked another one of my friends out for Valentine's day, and although it's so great for them both, I admit that I'm a little jealous that she's being pursued. Why don't guys want to pursue me? What do other girls have that I don't? I know these are stupid questions that are only fed to me from Satan, but it's hard to not think them. I guess it all just makes me feel a little left out. Just another thing I have to trust God for because only He can satisfy my needs and help me when I'm feeling down.