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 beginning and fall in love with its characters, just as I have.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

NO, RO!!!

It is 11:37. We have been silently taking our math EOG for over two hours. As test administrator, I've been circling around the room "checking to make sure scantrons are bubbled correctly" aka daydreaming about everything from summer to dinner to yesterday's proctor (who was much better looking than today's). My boys are working hard, so I haven't had to REG-U-LATE really. I'm almost through with my lap, gonna go perch on my desk and "watch for testing irregularities" aka sneakily read the Sports Illustrateds I brought for the students who finished early.

Not so fast, M. Rosamuel has somehow managed to completely TAKE OFF HIS SHIRT unnoticed by me or the proctor. So there he sits--naked from the waist up--furiously punching numbers into a calculator. "ROSIE!!!" I whisper sharply. He looks up innocently. "What??" his expression reads. "PUT YOUR SHIRT ON!!!" I mouth back. Rosamuel grins and raises his eyebrows, wiggling his bare shoulders at me before complying.

Double-U Tee Eff.
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2 comments:

  1. SusanMay 13, 2010 at 9:41 PM

    Cats, chippendales.... what's next??

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  2. Davis AnnMay 17, 2010 at 8:54 AM

    what in the world? this kid has to be your most bizarre.

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