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.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

I'm goin' to French, y'all!!

So, the real reason why I was really hesitant to start a blog was because I thought it a little presumptuous to think that people would be interested in my day-to-day life. Sure, I thought it was important that I went to the grocery store today, but does anyone else really care? Let's be serious. In the amount of time you wasted reading about my grocery store "adventure," you could have had one of your own.

What happened? I got an interesting job surrounded by even more interesting people and basically couldn't help myself. And since a small part of me still really wants you care about my grocery shopping, it's summer and I'm still writing.

My summer so far can pretty much be summed up in three letters:

No, not GTL.

TLC.

And by that I mean the TV channel. Not Tender, Loving Care. Or the 90s musical group.

Is that too pathetic?

What about PBR?

Still terrible? OK I'm done. Not many people are still in town, so I haven't done much of anything...

...UNTIL NOW.

This time next week: BRITE LITES, BIG CITY. Paris! Rome! Oh my gawsh it's the Eyeful Tower, y'all! Was that the pope!? But the best part about it is who I'll be traveling with.

George Clooney.

Whaa? Huh? Ok, my FAMILY. Let me just preface by saying this:

Thank God my parents didn't stop having kids after me. They don't know the massive favor they did me by adding--not one, not two--but THREE more girls to our family. I might not have known it all along, and I definitely haven't always appreciated it, but as of late my suspicions have been confirmed:

My sisters are the coolest people in the world.

I can not imagine what family trips would look like as an only child, nor do I want to. My built-in best friends are the best traveling companions you could ask for! From my age to the youngest, there's only a six-year difference, and this is the first big family trip we've taken since we've all been adults...did I just say that? We are not adults. And we'll prove it to you. Stay tuned...
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