A Breath of Fresh Air

It has been nice to have time to myself. Seriously, this job might not be too bad if I don't have to work as much as I have this year. My students have invaded my Facebook. Seriously, every time I check my email I have 10-15 messages from Facebook...friend requests, picture tags, gifts, comments, etc. It makes me happy. It also makes me laugh because they obviously have nothing better to do but sit at home and just play around with Facebook all day. I am very proud of the fact that many of them have added political ideology quizzes and presidential candidate endorsements to their Facebook profile. They send me messages that they are more conservative than they thought or that they align very closely with Hillary Clinton (ahhhhhhh!).

Anyway, I saw a few of them today. It makes me laugh because they are graduated but they are coming back! haha!

So I have one more funny story...I've been waiting to tell this one. So, I have noted how amazing my students are. They are smart and they come from amazing backgrounds. Chinese, Korean, Iranian, Pakistani, Russian, Indian, Vietnamese, Taiwanese (and yes...this is different than Chinese)...and they are very educated. So, when my 4th and 5th periods were doing their cultural projects my kids did something very typical but amusing (at least to me). Alexis, Julia and Vanessa were doing their cultural project on Thailand. Their classmates were up at the board having a competition of writing words in Thai faster than everyone else. They got points for being the first one done, written correctly.

Well, while their classmates were racing to write the words, three of my boys ended up going over in the corner of the board and comparing their languages. Nick wrote in Russian, Byron wrote in (not sure actually...probably Chinese), and Dillip wrote in whatever they write in India. It was so funny because they were paying no attention to the game. One would write something, the other two would point at parts, ask questions, and then write something in their own language. It was so funny. It just emphasized what awesome students I have 1) that they can all write different languages and 2) that they love studying each others' languages and will spend time comparing/contrasting their script. It also emphasized how much more they know than I know in some things.

Though not the best picture, I did try to capture it.


Reflection: I love those kids.

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