Hello friends, family, and strangers (I flatter myself)!I am a recently-graduated girl finding my way in the "real world" (apparently, I've been floating around the fake world for the past two decades).Many of my friends' "real world"s consist of cubicles, nine-to-fives, marriage, babies, and other such grown-up things.My real world looks a little different.Yes, I still get up and go to work every morning, same as they do.But instead of battling fax machines, computer programs, disgruntled spouses and dirty diapers, I arm myself against a legion of 14-year-old boys.Well, 83 of them to be exact.You see, I teach 8th-grade boys' Science in an inner-city, high-poverty school.What it is not: glamorous, prestigious, boring.What it is: humorous, heartbreaking, and the most challenging thing I will ever do.
The stories I tell and the people I describe are real; you can't make this stuff up.If you are new to my blog, I hope you'll start at the beginningand fall in love with its characters, just as I have.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Rashee's song for me today...
(as we are lined up waiting for the bell and the rest of the class is giving him a beat)
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