What's New Thursday November 1

Today we talked about childhood psychopathologies in my College class, so, of course I had to use illustrations from my own family: my sister's separation anxiety at school! my daughter's difficult birth! bonding with my son! nieces, nephews, and the whole lot. There is nothing my class doesn't know about us! (if I didn't speak too fast or use too many English words they have never heard before!!) I even handed out examples of children's drawings, one by Chad when he was 5, etc. etc.

Next week is adolescent psychopathologies, and I wish Dr. Jenkins (!) could teach that class for me!

Their first assignment was to design an Intake Form to use when interviewing potential clients for the first time. One student e-mailed me that his Intake Form would be short because he had already decided that his hypothetical client wasn't very ill! (I had to respond by asking what his logic was, diagnosing a client before meeting him/her.)

Yesterday we finished our unit on Tom Sawyer at the Christian International School (middle school). So we had a "Game Show" with the review questions. It tended to get a little on the rowdy side when we put a team of boys against girls. The students didn't think I would be able to see which team raised its hand first to answer the questions (since I was reading the questions), so we appointed a "watcher" who would let us know whose hand went up first. But she wanted a friend to be a watcher too, so between them they divided it up and one watched one team while the other watched the other team!! What's wrong with this picture!!

On Saturday we are having a Singing Prayer Service at our apartment. Please pray that the right people will come and it will go well. I am pretty excited about doing this, having always wanted to do it in the U.S.