Fall is here!

Dear readers (all seven of you),

I am sorry I haven't updated in awhile. I was going to update this past weekend but got side tracked. Anyway, enough of my excuses.

Things here have been going well, for the most part. I have been to Prauge for the second time to visit with some friends/fellow English speakers. It is always nice to be around someone who speaks your language and you don't have to slow down and say every word one letter at a time. Going to prauge is fairly cheap. For a two hour bus ride it is about $7.00, isn't that awesome! So, once I get my first pay-check (yes my first) I will start saving so that I can go visit all of my other friends here in the Czech and maybe just maybe visit another country.

Eventhough my support has stopped completely I want to use the money that I earn here to feed myself and also visit this place that they call Europe. I really think that this will probably will be my last time here in Europe. So, I want to see as much as I can and it's fairly cheap.

Anyway. Some good things that have happend here..... hum.... I am getting to know my fellow teachers. They are some of the nicesest people. They are all willing to help me out when I do something wrong or if I need to know where a place to eat or if I need to go to Karlovy Vary they are willing to take me. And they all want to get to know me. Maybe not all at once but they ask me questions here and there. I am sure God will open a door soon just so I can have a deep conversation.

Now on the God note.

I have been thinking about what it is that God wants me to do in life and also about me being myself no matter what that is. I am slowly learning that I am not always going to have everything figured out and I might be in a place that I don't want to be in but God has put me in this place to learn something for the next place I will be (which might not be a place I want either). Romans 14:19. States what it is I have come to peace with not only myself but for others.

If there is things that you want me to talk about or even more about let me know. I just don't know what it is that you all want to hear from me. Sometimes I feel like I just bable about nonsense. Anyway, I hope all is well with life there in the states and Peru and wherever everyone else is.

In Christ's love!
Derick

P.S. Pray for me for I am sick and I have been taking a lot of vitiman C but it's not working. May God bless me on this journey. And photos will be up soon on photobucket or flicker one of the two because it won't let me put any on here. When I do I will give you all the address and password so you can print and give them to everyone!

Update #2!

Hello!

Where do I start.....

Well, I am going on my 4th week here in Sokolov and thus far things seem to be going quite well. With having a flat that over looks part of the city and having a nice 30 minute walk to my school everyday has helped me to think about life and how much I don't know things that I thought I knew. It has also helped me just to clear my mind and focus on what it that God wants from me.

I have felt God more in these 3 and a half weeks than I have seen our Creator all year. I am not one to say that I have always been that great and perfect "Christian" because that is a complete fallacy on my part. I am no better from anyone else out that and that is such a great feeling! I would be glad to talk more on that with you if you would like but finding the time I know is hard.

Now on with my students.

I have about 265 students. Yes, that is a lot! It is really hard to get their names memorized but I am working on it. It is nice that there is only a hand full of names that are used. Some cultural thing that I don't quite understand just yet.

Anywho, my students range from 5th grade to 9th grade and the age really doesn't matter on their knowledge in English because I have some really smart students in my 5th grade and some 9th graders who don't know anything. But I am willing to be patient for all of my students. Most of them know so much!

That is one thing that I wish I could have done when I was in school, take another language. These students are taking Czech, German, AND English. How crazy is that? I can speak a little Spanish and read a little Greek and Hebrew but being able to speak all three of those is unimagine. One of these days I will be able to speak two languages. Not sure what but I will.

None of this really flows but I just want to tell it.

This past Saturday there was a fair in the town where they had midevil plays all around. It was one of the coolest things I have been to since I've been here. It was nice to see people on the street and also nice to see some of my students. You don't realize how much you miss seeing people you know on the street. Sterling and Blackwell was great with that.

Well anyway, I don't want to hang those three of you who read this from their work. So, I will end with this. Always say hello when you walk in the room no matter what. Or they are going to think you are rude.

In Christ's Love!

Derick