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.

Monday, June 6, 2011

4

Well, the winner of my unofficial ebonics quiz was...Susan(!?). Who would have thought that the whitest, prissiest graduate of Trinity Presbyterian School would be the darkhorse candidate to take the prize?

Maybe it was because there were only two entries (the other being by my sister). However, since the number of applicants was so low and DA's was so funny, I declare both of you winners and will be commissioning your letter-writing tomorrow.

Hey, don't worry about sending me your addresses because:
A) I will live with you, Suz, in a matter of weeks, and
B) I will see you, sister, in ONE week

Four days.
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2 comments:

  1. callieJune 7, 2011 at 12:55 AM

    i am hoping and praying that awkward ann doesn't stop in 4 days?!?!?!
    also hoping and praying for you in your adventures ahead!

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  2. AnonymousJune 7, 2011 at 7:32 PM

    So I was gonna take the quiz, but I felt it would be unfair. But you could still write me a letter. About how you are staying in Charlotte. :)

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