First almost hurricane experience

This week was our first official week of school.  I was a little nervous about being a real math teacher all on my own and how the students would respond to me. One thing was for sure I didn't need to worry about what I would be wearing since everyone (including teachers) wears uniforms.
I was nervous about the students and things like being an advisor and teaching an elective on personal finance.  I had been told that the students could be really difficult and disrespectful, so although I tried to enter the school year with an open mind I was nervous nonetheless.  My fears with regards to the students were completely unfounded.  Having student taught at DHS with up to thirty five students in the classroom I think has made me prepared for anything especially a private school with no more than twenty students in a classroom.  I really like the students.  I'm sure there will be difficult moments but right now I'm feeling very blessed.
Having never been an advisor, I was terrified about having to teach/advise students about figuring out their futures.  Not to mention I had been informed that the class I have is the worst behaved in the school. They have given us a curriculum to follow and it is really good, but I wasn't sure if the students were going to buy into it.  Again I was wrong.  We did a time management session this week (I'll admit I felt a little hypocritical since I'm not the best at managing time) and I thought it was a little basic and not all that interesting but the students really got into it and scheduled their day out to incorporate more study time (they may have been just trying to suck up to the teacher, but it's better than nothing). Again I'm feeling very blessed. 
Now to get to this personal finance.  To be honest we had to sign up ti teach some elective class and out of everything on the list, personal finance seemed like the thing that I would be the least horrible at teaching (it's got to have something to do with math right?). I also had in the back of my mind that personal finance sounds like a very boring class (at least to me) so maybe no one would even sign up for it and I would get out of it.  I was wrong.  A student came up to me on Thursday and says "I'm going to be in your elective class on personal finance.  I'm very excited." To say the least I was surprised.  After five minutes of speaking with the student, I'm pretty sure he knows more about personal finance than me, but thankfully the federal reserve has developed a curriculum for teaching personal finance and they've got to know something about personal finance. They are the federal reserve after all. Again I'm feeling very blessed.
On Wednesday, we were informed that there was a hurricane heading for Santo Domingo.  On Thursday they sent the kids home at noon and cancelled school for Friday in expectation of a hurricane hitting the city.  I was excited/scared about my first soon to be hurricane experience.  I was also happy about being able to sleep in on Friday morning.  Friday morning I awoke with some excitedment about the big storm...unfortunately for my excitement, but fortunately for the safety of the Dominican Republic, the hurricane passed by to the south of us.  All we got was some pretty strong wind that rattled my door all night. Every time a strong wind would blow I would wake up to the sound of the door rattling.  Every time I awoke it sounded like someone was trying to break into my room.  Needless to say I was wide awake very fast and ready to pounce on whoever was coming into my room.  Thankfully sanity would eventually kick in and I would realize it was just the wind.
It rained pretty much all day today.  A lot of the streets were flooded and we found all the leaks in the apartment (there were quite a few). We are all safe and sound albeit a little wet, but grateful all the windows and doors are intact. Again I'm feeling very blessed.