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King Noodle

Do you live in the Bay Area? Are you in need of a quick in between classes or meetings? Do you like rice and/or noodles with your meat and veggies?

Then you should definitely try this place out!

Have you ever eaten at King Noodle?It's a little Asian restaurant that's based off of rice and noodles! It's cheap, fast, and delicious! Not to mention the portions are fairly large-sized! The atmosphere is warm and friendly and the service is pretty nice too! So if you're in need of fast food, but not the greasy hamburger kind this is just the place for you!

What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali

I read this online the other day and liked it so much I wanted to re post it here! I want to be a teacher someday so this was actually very inspirational. I hope to someday be just like Taylor, and when someone questions what I did with my life I will be able to answer it like this.

What Teachers Make, or
Objection Overruled, or
If things don't work out, you can always go to law school

By Taylor Mali
www.taylormali.com

He says the problem with teachers is, "What's a kid going to learn
from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?"
He reminds the other dinner guests that it's true what they say about
teachers:
Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.

I decide to bite my tongue instead of his
and resist the temptation to remind the other dinner guests
that it's also true what they say about lawyers.

Because we're eating, after all, and this is polite company.

"I mean, you're a teacher, Taylor," he says.
"Be honest. What do you make?"

And I wish he hadn't done that
(asked me to be honest)
because, you see, I have a policy
about honesty and ass-kicking:
if you ask for it, I have to let you have it.

You want to know what I make?

I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.
I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional medal of honor
and an A- feel like a slap in the face.
How dare you waste my time with anything less than your very best.

I make kids sit through 40 minutes of study hall
in absolute silence. No, you may not work in groups.
No, you may not ask a question.
Why won't I let you get a drink of water?
Because you're not thirsty, you're bored, that's why.

I make parents tremble in fear when I call home:
I hope I haven't called at a bad time,
I just wanted to talk to you about something Billy said today.
Billy said, "Leave the kid alone. I still cry sometimes, don't you?"
And it was the noblest act of courage I have ever seen.

I make parents see their children for who they are
and what they can be.

You want to know what I make?

I make kids wonder,
I make them question.
I make them criticize.
I make them apologize and mean it.
I make them write, write, write.
And then I make them read.
I make them spell definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful, definitely
beautiful
over and over and over again until they will never misspell
either one of those words again.
I make them show all their work in math.
And hide it on their final drafts in English.
I make them understand that if you got this (brains)
then you follow this (heart) and if someone ever tries to judge you
by what you make, you give them this (the finger).

Let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true:
I make a goddamn difference! What about you?

Caught in the Middle

I feel as though life is playing a game with my life.

Not only mine but those people whose lives are intertwined with mine as well. What am I supposed to do about it? When these people come to me for help and I can give nothing? I want to help, to care, to encourage, but I feel as if there is nothing left to give. Especially to one of my best friends. She is having boy problems, and little inexperienced me can only give speculations and advice based off of my one failure relationship. I want to be her support but I feel like I'm supposed to back off and let her deal with it. But that idea seems preposterous to me! How can I let my best friend deal with her problems by herself? I want to help her! I want to be there for her, yet I'm supposed to back off as if I don't care? no way no how!

Now my other friend which is the reason to her problem is also talking to me a lot. And it's getting kinda....interesting I should say. So I'm caught in the middle and honestly it's rather uncomfortable. But I still want to be a friend to both of them..

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I don't know where to go I can't do it alone I've tried
And I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment
I'm so scared but I don't show it
I can't figure it out
It's bringing me down I know
I've got to let it go
And just enjoy the show

Just enjoy the show huh Lenka? I wish I could.. but it's not a show for me it's life and I want to be a part of it rather than sitting back and watching it.

Romans 7: 15-20, 24

15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. ^[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Romans 7:15-20, 24

This passage is really convicting for me. I mean it's all true! I don't understand what I do on a daily basis, things I do sinfully I keep on doing, but I do not want to do it. And things I want to do, like honor God I do not do as often as I should.

And who can or would want to rescue me? Try the most loving being ever, Our heavenly Father.

My Pastor spoke on this passage two weeks ago during service and it just hit me really hard that I sin a lot, even when I know it's wrong, and even when I know what I should be doing I still repeat the same sin over again. And I also know that I'm responsible for my own sin, and it might condemn me but.. I can't stop doing it! Why why can't I? when I KNOW it's wrong and I want to stop I cannot, yet what I want to do I cannot. Why is life so hard? Why so difficult to comprehend? I will be spending a lot of time on my knees in prayer for the next few weeks trying to figure this out. :|