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.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

dey trynna hook a sista up

My students are very concerned that I am not married. Ever eager to help, they've tried to set me up with every white male staff member at our school--regardless of age or marital status.

"Ms. M--Imma talk to Mr. L dis afternoon in fourth block for ya. Put in a good word, ya feel me?"

"Yeah, Ms. M. I told Mr. C you said 'wassup.' I told him you was single an' all and you was trynna holla. He said you seemed like a nice lady."

*Mr. C is the creepy new gym teacher*

"Ms. M you seem stressed out an' it's probly cuz you ain't got no MAN to come home to. Imma talk to Mr. F an' see if we can't get you no HUSBAND."

"But Mr. F is already married with two children."

"Yeah but from what I understand things is goin' downhill...Ain't no reason why you couldn't at LEAST start puttin' yoself out there."

After I told my fourth block that I was going to quit and never come back (I say that probably once a week), I received this letter from "my youngest best friend Kenneth." Click to enlarge.

Mr. E--I'm down if you are. Kenneth highly recommends you.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 31, 2011 at 2:21 PM

    get get get it girl!

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  2. AnonymousMarch 31, 2011 at 2:27 PM

    this is awesome

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  3. ClareApril 1, 2011 at 6:56 AM

    I mean, you only have like 3 choices of white males. You have to play the hand that's dealt to you, K.

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  4. Lindsey SmithApril 1, 2011 at 7:24 AM

    when will we ever see a glimpse the future MR. M1?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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