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, February 17, 2011
WIN.
I made 85 fourteen-year-old hard-ass boys sing:
"Water travels in a cycle, yes it does!"
to the tune of "She'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes!" With gusto. Complete with hand motions.
I never comment on blogs, so feel privileged. I stumbled across your blog last night and may or may not have read a great deal of your archives. Thanks for making me laugh so much.
I, too, was an English major, and I also have hopes of pursuing creative writing. Just know that I think you're definitely gonna make it. Good luck with the creative writing program, and keep blogging. So I can keep laughing.
Kat, I'm so glad you read. I never comment on blogs either, but I get really sad when I post something that receives no response, so thanks for making my day! Good luck with your writing too.
I never comment on blogs, so feel privileged. I stumbled across your blog last night and may or may not have read a great deal of your archives. Thanks for making me laugh so much.
ReplyDeleteI, too, was an English major, and I also have hopes of pursuing creative writing. Just know that I think you're definitely gonna make it. Good luck with the creative writing program, and keep blogging. So I can keep laughing.
Kat, I'm so glad you read. I never comment on blogs either, but I get really sad when I post something that receives no response, so thanks for making my day! Good luck with your writing too.
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