The Second One

Again I am sitting in class, with all my students hard at work. Could there be a better time to post? I submit that there cannot!*

As my first year teaching comes to an end I find myself counting the days as much as my students. At the same time I am also looking forward to next year. I have in my mind all the things I am going to do better and change in my classroom and methods. I really want a new textbook for at least Spanish 1. That would be amazing.

I confiscated an English vocab list from one of my students. It was full of such great words. My students all laughed at how excited I got over them. I chose a word from the list that will be today's word of the day. You can find it at the bottom of today's post.

Prom is over, thank heavens. I spent all Saturday setting up for it and chaperoning it. At the risk of sounding like an old woman, I cannot stand the way they dance or the music that they ask for. The kids request songs and then sway back and forth, butt to crotch. It's obscene and any fool can do it (as demonstrated by many last Saturday night). Then when a song comes on they can actually dance to, they all leave the dance floor. Kids these days. Fortunately the d.j.'s were more than willing to work with me in keeping an eye on the music, and they played a variety of music instead of (essentially) the same song over and over and over again.

Favorite new Internet find: hulu!! Check it out. Know it, love it. For a girl like me, without cable, this is fantastic.

Word of the day: virulent adj. poisonous or destructive.

*line inspired by Brian Regan. Thank you Brian Regan.