ALMOST THERE!

And I'm almost there! Almost there! People down here think I'm crazy, but I don't care.


I tired tried to find a PATF (if you don't know what that abbrev is, you uncultured swine) gif but was unsuccessful in that endeavor.

School is almost done.  My first year of teaching is almost done.  The students are done learning. I almost done with basically lesson planning for this year.  The picture below shows really how DONE I am.

I need to write a Modern Family post sometime.

For example this explains how I was feeling on Sunday night in anticipation of another full week of school:

But for real I didn't sleep on Sunday because I just had a lot of stuff on my mind.  Then on Monday night, I slept like a rock for 12 hours straight.  I may or may not have fallen asleep at around 5:30pm and didn't fully wake up until 6 am the next morning.

I have also felt that I may have to resort to some of this is some of my lessons:

I mean Colombian cultural panpipe dancing would be musical right?!

And the kids at this point will basically just be looking at any teacher and thinking:

But I occasionally think this too if any kid wants to start complaining about they want summer to be here. YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!

When really on the outside I look like this: 

Keepin' it professional.

So by the end of the year I may just disappear like this: 

Well that was a fun one to blogst.  Gif heavy blogst are much more entertaining for me to write since it means actual less writing and more picture explaining and my somewhat witty remark/comment on the pic gif.

Also for those who don't get the title reference, The Princess and the Frog.  Check it out. 1920s setting, gumbo, and some decent jazzy, catchy song.  But Tangled is still better.

Transparent Person

I first must make this PSA:   

I FOUND DELICIOUS MILK IN CHINA!!!!!!!

So that was a win.  Also I'm trying out this new font. Should I add color? Nah we're sticking with black. (hei se)

Geez, I haven't blogged in 2 weeks. I think I'll post several posts just to spread everything out that has happened. Which is a lot.

I started this particular post about 2 weeks ago after an incident that happened at school.  This incident is entitled: BULLYING.

Seriously, it is an issue everywhere.  Long story short, in an elementary class there was an instance of bullying that ended in several students crying, feelings were hurt and long conversations/conferences with a teacher and the principal.  This is the first time that bullying has been so blatantly obvious in our school.  Being a small school, things like bullying, mean students, troublemakers tend to be taken care of and shut down (at least for a little while) rather quickly.  

Since I teach the most students out of any teachers, I decided it would be a good idea to just give a life lesson on bullying to my Secondary students to make them aware of the situation as well and to let them know I was there to be a person they could report/talk to about anything bullying or otherwise. Well class ended with many students, girls and boys alike, in tears and stunned silence.  And these were teenagers aging from 12-18.  37 students. 

I myself was a victim of bullying in the 1st grade and 7th grade.  I can remember exactly where and when it was, what I was wearing, what the kids looked like that made fun of me and the EXACT words they used to verbally abuse me.  And that was years ago.  It STILL shocking to me how mean kids can be to each other.

Now a few weeks, later things have settled down but there is still the cautious and somewhat looming feeling that something was brought to the surface at YAS. Staff and students alike are all aware of it.

Also I wish I could add more about this but I feel like that's really all I need to say plus I need to write more entries about more happenings.

PS The title Transparent Person are words spoken to me by a student describing how she felt when being bullied by some of her peers whom she would consider some of her best friends.