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He must still have been curious about the church because while we were gone for the Feast he crawled through a bedroom window of our home to get some church literature to read.
by Abbi Plagenza
've always worked well with younger children
and thought that someday I would follow in a profession that involved
them. It was just a few short months ago, with some encouragement
from a good friend, that I decided to pursue a teaching career.
I then proceeded to research my options and discovered a demand for enthusiastic teachers. To see exactly what I was getting myself into, I volunteered to help at an elementary school.
Through a program at my high school, I began working with first-graders. Little did I know the lessons I was about to learn.
I observed, astonished, at how these students' regular teacher transformed the alphabet from shapes into sound. Q, R and Z became sounds, and then words, and now somehow these five- and six-year-olds can actually read. The kids didn't even know what was happening. It was all fun to them. They felt no pressure; they were just playing a game.
Now the children had mastered the basic tool of reading. As they continue to read and gain knowledge, their regular teacher and I are there to encourage them, help with the difficult words and explain the meanings of things.
While I was going through this teaching and learning experience, a friend at high school asked me why I can't go out on Friday nights. I told him it is "because of my religious beliefs" and left it at that.
I thought that would be the end of the matter, but it wasn't. He continued his questions, so I described for him a short version of God's plan.
The fall Holy Days were fast approaching. I told my friend that my family and I would be gone for a few days, and he asked more questions. Warming to my subject, I told him, in basic terms, about the Holy Days.
He asked even more questions. There's only so much I will tell at school, so I told him that if he really wanted to know he could talk to my mother.
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