May 20. The Lord sent us a hard rain right after we went to bed last night. This morning there was blue sky and cotton puff clouds; but this afternoon, the weather turned cool and cloudy, and there was some light rain. The students moved their desks and books out into the office this morning so Matthew could put linoleum down on the schoolroom floor. It was mid-morning or after when Matthew came. He and Daddy spent quite a bit of time putting down flattened cardboard boxes first to try to even out the floor. After they got the first piece of Linoleum cut, they needed help carrying it into the schoolroom. So I let Dallas and Mike take a few minutes to help them. When they were ready to measure and cut the second piece, however, they had to use the other whole roll as there wasn’t enough left on the first roll. The whole roll weighed 39 kilograms; and that was much too heavy for Matthew to handle alone, and Daddy couldn’t help him. So they would either have to leave it until another day or have Mike and Dallas help. The students were in the middle of writing a story for English class, but I let them off for the day so they could help get that room done. Since the students were off early, I had Judy prepare the uxai with a small pumpkin and a couple onions. I had made a meatloaf and washed some kaukau and put those into the oven to cook earlier while the students were working independently. Had also transferred a few pictures to the computer while they were doing their written exercises in math. This afternoon, I made sure everything was in order for classes tomorrow and wrote a few exercises on the chalkboard. Then I made up a music quiz for Thursday. Did the dishes right after supper, as I have been doing, and had an early bath too before the evening got too cold. While I was waiting for the bath water to heat, I photocopied a couple multiplication speed tests and printed the music quizzes. After bath, I worked on ladies’ Pidgin lessons. “1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! 2Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah. 3For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head. 4He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever. 5His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him. 6For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance. 7For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.” Psalm 21:1-7 A very heart-warming, comforting, and heart-stirring portion of Scripture. May 21. Mike and Dallas (Elias) were late for school this morning as they were trying to help the family settle a problem. We had a shorter Bible class today, just praying, going over the verses, and doing the quiz. However, it wasn’t as short as I hoped, due to the fact that the men were late. We went right to music class after math, finishing up yesterday’s lesson, doing a little review, students’ writing answers to a few questions, singing “Olsem Wanem?”, and starting to learn “Blut Bilong Jisas, Em Tasol” (“Nothing But the Blood”). After recess, they quickly finished up chapter 9 math lesson. We skipped chapter 10 because it was too complicated and really unnecessary. Started review for chapter 11, but it jumps right into long division with three, and even four-digit divisors. I asked the students how many digits they worked with in divisors in eighth grade, and they said “only one.” I was quite surprised as we had started working with two-digit divisors in the fifth grade math book. Well, they certainly wouldn’t get the material in chapter 11. So we did some review practice on the chalkboard, including practice with one-digit divisors and checking by multiplication. We didn’t use the whole class time, because I didn’t have a suitable lesson to give them. Had to make up a lesson this evening. In English class, after review of principal parts, they finished writing the rough draft of their stories, and then wrote a good copy with ink. And in science class, they reread the lesson we’ve been working on, and we went over the study exercises together. Then we stopped for the day so the students could sand down their desk tops and cut and glue pieces of linoleum on them. Afterward, Judy filled the washing machine and buckets with water, ready for doing laundry early in the morning. The two men helped Daddy pump diesel fuel for the generator, and then everyone went home, and we had our nap. After nap, I started making lesson plans, then started making up the math lesson. Finished the math lesson this evening, wrote some math exercises on the chalkboard, and then finished making lesson plans. After that, I read e-mails, wrote in journal, and took a wee bath. “….all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.” Psalm 22:29 Every knee shall bow. There is no one who can save his own soul. Oh, how men need Christ!
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