Hello lovelies!
It has been a long while since I've posted anything here. My life has been like a whirlwind! This summer I started graduate school working towards my masters degree in deaf education. Learning through college has been a fairly enjoyable experience for me. I love learning as well as the college environment as a whole. Everything is completely different this semester.
The fact that we are currently experiencing a world wide pandemic is not helping my want for normalcy. Aside from that, graduate school is a new experience for me. Sometimes I feel more is expected from me than I can give. I have been working as an intern at a school throughout the week and taking graduate courses on Friday. It is a lot of work. Nonetheless, I love it.
I started in a primary school placement. It was incredible. The teacher I was working with was similar to me in many ways. We had an online classroom with 19 of the sweetest little second graders. Teaching children online was a strange and new experience for us all. Thankfully we collaborated with four other online second grade teachers who were in the same position as us. They all became my friends by the end of my time there. I miss them dearly.
I am currently working in a high school in the Special Education department. My mentor is an algebra co-teacher as well as one of the football coaches. The first couple of weeks were a really difficult transition. High school is far out of my comfort zone to begin with, and on top of that I am teaching algebra. I didn't even finish algebra in high school! Even so, God is good, and I am working with some amazing teachers. I only have two weeks left at this school. At one point I was counting down the days until I got out of here, but I really think I am going to miss this place.
I talked to my recruiter from Pioneer Bible Translators yesterday. I was supposed to intern with them this past summer before the worst of the COVID trauma hit. Through the loving support of my ministry partners, and the gracious power of the Lord, I was fully funded before the summer hit. All this to say, I will be able to proceed with that internship in Summer 2021. I praise the Lord for keeping that opportunity open to me. I am psyched, to say the least.
If you happened to make it through this post, thank you. Thank you for listening to my heart and caring to know what my crazy life looks like.
I love you dearly,
The One and Onliest Bek
