Teaching Science at Camp was.. interesting

I taught at a church-sponsored camp in Milpitas for the last two weeks, and I taught science to middle school and high school students. It was interesting in the sense that the middle schoolers and high schoolers were mixed together, so in some classes, we'd have 6th graders and 12th graders, which made it tremendously hard to teach because well, that's a really really large age gap. Anyway, I initially didn't fully agree with the things that I was teaching because I was teaching creationist science, which is basically science that proves the super conservative viewpoint of Noah's ark and the fountains of the deep. It's kind of hard to explain in this blog, but basically, I didn't know if I could teach something that was telling the kids that this was the right way of thinking. Keeping in mind that at least half of these kids are not Christian, I didn't think it was the most life-giving thing to be teaching them, so I chose to teach from an objective of a perspective as I could. There were basically five periods in a day, and I TAed the first three and taught the last two.

I stayed at Stanford during those two weeks since the commute from Stanford to Milpitas is only 40 minutes one way versus the 2 hour one way trip from Elk Grove to Milpitas. I stayed in Deanna's (she's a rising sophomore who lived in FroSoCo) room in Rains and also spending a large chunk of my time in Mirrielees with Kevin, Sango, Bertram, and Jason (who by the way are very hospitable people. two of the four are also amazing cooks!). I commuted every day to and from work, leaving Stanford at around 7am and getting back when free parking started at 4pm. We'd also do Mark Study in Mlees in the evening, and we'd eat chips with chopsticks while drinking tea. I'd have to say those two weeks were definitely the highlight of my summer so far because I got to teach and be in community and study the Bible.

Coming back to Elk Grove is kind of a shock because I don't have that kind of structure anymore (between work schedule, eat dinner, mark study, cook lunch for me and deanna) so I'm allowed to sleep and catch up on some sleep debt. Sadly though, I slept for 14 hours two days ago, and for 10 hours yesterday (that was the norm before I went back to Stanford for the two weeks). I wonder if all this sleeping is even healthy because I'm definitely sleeping at least half of my day away...

Since Karis called me out earlier, I'm going to call out Kevin, who should be in Japan by now.