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.

Friday, January 14, 2011

what the what

"What goes in must come out." I lean over Cameron's desk, elaborating on the Law of Conservation. He needs help with balancing equations.

"YESS!" He holds up a strand of hair that has fallen from my head and landed on his paper. "GOT ONE."

Jakai and I watch with amusement/concern as he holds it under his nose, closes his eyes and inhales deeply.

"BRUH." Jakai says, putting his face in his hands. "You is WEIRD. Dat's stalker ish right there, real talk."

"You need to get checked out," I tell him. "Or tested for...something."

Cameron grins and apologizes profusely. "Ok, ok back to dis chemistry science."

"Well, if you have two atoms of hydrogen on the reactants side, then y--"

"Hey but forreal you got a Ziploc I can have?" The hair still dangles from his left hand.

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2 comments:

  1. Lindsey SmithJanuary 18, 2011 at 12:21 PM

    uhhh i wish i was the object of affection and beauty for so many boys!!!!

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  2. Davis AnnJanuary 18, 2011 at 5:54 PM

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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