Halfway Mark

I am now three weeks in to my Gateway experience, and what an experience it has been! I had my first experience of all out crying, snot running out of my nose. The whole shebang. Wonderfully therapeutic. So much has happened I don't even know where to begin with processing or talking about it.
I work at Ayuda community center, as part of the day camp, with the K-1 students. The theme this year is "Ready, Set, Go! Let's Get Fit!" so I've managed to work fruits and vegetables into the math lessons I'm teaching, and the games we play. It was so much fun coming up with lesson plans and whatnot. It's not terribly difficult to encourage K-1 students to be active :) so we're cool as far as exercise. I also get to plan a faith and fun lesson, where I will attempt to make the gospel engaging for the students. Working with the children is a blast, but it's also really tiring. I'm really trusting and hoping in God to provide the strength and energy I need to get through this. He's blessed me this past week, and so I have hope for the new one coming up.
This Monday a friend (Wes, from Swarthmore) and I will be leading worship for Chapel. Wes and I are both worship leaders on our campuses for Intervarsity. I'm looking forward to it. I absolutely love leading worship.
I get so tired because at Gateway, we're still working when we get home. We have assigned chores (not that big of a deal, depending on the week. dinner and dishes for 9 ppl sort of sucks though.), scripture study, book readings and discussion, movie viewings and discussions, work in the community followed by discussions, and just discussions for the sake of discussing. I have so much to learn, so much room to grow. It's amazing the way God has met me here. Absolutely amazing. When I felt God leading me to come here, I admit I was still a bit skeptical. Now, there's no way I can be. For me, experience is worth so much more than just head knowledge, but both are needed. Gateway has done a great job of balancing the two.
Well, it's getting late for someone with lots of little ones to entertain, so I must leave this update for later. I guess I can finish by saying how grateful I am for the people who helped to get me here. This has been a great blessing, and I've only seen the half of it!