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, February 18, 2011

full moon Friday=school lockdown and power outage

Today the power went off. We walked to lunch down the dark hallway, lit only by the eerie emergency lights.

Je'Corey: "Mann, dis how you KNOW we in the ghetto. Even our SCHOOL didn't pay the electricity bill. Dis just ridiculous."
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  1. A fly on the wallFebruary 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM

    Blake and I sat in bed laughing so hard as we read through about 30 of your posts...you're amazing! Please don't ever stop writing...you're my source of laughter these days!! ;) Love you birthday girl!!!

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