180 Days in Portable 704

So here she is, ladies and gentlemen... may I present to you, Mrs. Butts classroom, Portable 704. Notice how clean the floors are and how neat the desks of rows are. Also take note of how each textbook is neatly place in the desktray. This is the last time the room will look like this.

I've seen my roster for the school year so far, and currently, I can pronounce about 15% of the names. Going only by names, it looks like I will have students representing every country on the globe.
The teacher next to me got moved into the big building this year. I guess they like her more. After she moved out, I stole her bookcase. Sorry to whoever moves into her old room, bah ha! Doesn't it look so great in my room though?

And I fixed up a cute little corner of the room. It's the first thing you see when you walk in. I LOVE the "Be Awesome Today" print which I found on... PINTEREST! What did I do before Pinterest???

So now that my room is ready, I've really been thinking A LOT this week about if I'm spiritually ready. I'm committing to really praying over my room this year, and seriously looking at it as a mission field instead of just trying to get through the day.

I found out earlier this week that one of my most favorite students EVER (who just graduated this past May) is pregnant. I've had a ton of students to have babies or be pregnant in my class, but this one has really upset me so much. We've emailed back and forth this past week- I just wanted to make sure she is ok. She wrote me this:

"Thank you so much for being here for me even after high school. The only person I really talk to about my concerns is my boyfriend. My mom was ok at first, then she got really upset, and now we are back on good terms. We just have to take this day by day and everything will work out. I'm just really scared! I am happy, I am just scared that I won't be able to provide the way I have always wanted to for my future kids. I don't want this baby to go without because of my carelessness as a teen. I'm staying positive as of now :) there are bad days but for the most part, I try to stay positive."

I can't pronounce most of the names on my roll, but I am praying for each student and trusting that God put them in my class for a reason.