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Too Many Boys

I got another boy in my first grade class, so now I’m up to eight boys and one girl. The other day, Sky decided to break out into a Michael Jackson impression in the middle of class. He hopped out of his seat, put one hand on his crotch and the other one on his [ READ MORE ]

A New School Year

  • September 15th, 2009
  • Posted in teaching

I’m teaching first graders, fifth graders, and seventh graders this year. I have eight first-graders: seven boys and one girl. The girl is quiet, docile, and does her work neatly and efficiently. The other seven boys are little terrors. They talk loudly, run around, and stick their erasers on their pencils and sword-fight each other. [ READ MORE ]

Harry Potter Camp

After teaching indifferent high school kids for the past month, I’ve forgotten how nice it was to teach kids again. The way they look at me with adoring eyes as I hold their rapt attention makes me feel on top of the world, and the way they genuinely say “Teacher Tina” is like music to [ READ MORE ]

Dead Friday

Got home at 12:40am from poker last night. Finally crashed into bed at 1am. Got woken up by the neighbor’s f-ing bird at 5am. Barely slept for the next 3 hours. Alarm went off at 8am. Finally dragged myself out of bed at 8:15am. Got dressed and out the door by 8:30am. At work by [ READ MORE ]

Future Rockstar

I’m doing a plug for one of the students that I teach. She’s a 16 year old high school student, and she’s so cute and very talented. This is her YouTube channel. Her English is really good, definitely one of the best students that I’ve taught thus far. If she ever makes it big one [ READ MORE ]