sorry not on my usual game of posting. just got super busy this week, bunch of stinking papers to grade, and keeping up with my place and the yardwork, and then the whole internet connection thing not reaching my table anymore. ha subbing both days off this week..blah
I can say I have an interview for an esl teaching job and at city high school next week. so I'm pumped up for that, although I grew up a white suburb schoolboy, I'm wondering what to expect of the city schools. I'm trying to imagine a basic mix of bad and good kids of all races, instead of a stereotyped image of everyone with sagging pants and xxlarge white gangsta tshirts in the halls. with guns and knives etc.... but of course, I'm not going to be teaching a full classroom just handfuls of ESL kids. I can definitely handle it if I get the job. woot woot. I cant wait to be full time again, which equals benefits and traveling again. when and if it happens. Lord willing.
I had a ssigned my college students to interview each other and then write a paper on it including two sources. well they were a LOT of fun to read, the students were all so surprised to find people with stuff in common and with various backgrounds etc... Have I ever mentioned how attached I get to the people in my classes, all interested in their backgrounds and hope and dreams etc... It's kind of funny how I miss them or wonder what they're doing after the semester is open. there is this one guy who used to be snow boarder in CO and then moved back to okc for school. he wears a really cool mohawk spiked up every now and then to class. and last night, I read the interview of him and found out he has a 67 Ford Mustang... AHH man!!! it's just killing me. somewhere in another life I secretly dream somewhere of being a snowboarder, wear a cool mohawk, and definitely want that 67 Mustang!!! oh man.
was subbing 8th grade kids all day today, which was amazing, most of 'em listen to me and I keep ;em busy without coming down too hard and grouchy. I act sort of interesting and random sometimes in the classroom which keeps 'em on their toes. ha One thing is for sure, after having a class of 32 8th graders, it makes me VERY thankful there are ESL positions open where I won't have to be back in a full classroom managing 30 + kids... whoah.