I have to admit, I think my friend Cami and I are way busier this school year than last year. Both her and I have an additional class to teach on top of English 9 and English 10. She teaches the AIMS 10 and I am in charge of High School Success. In addition, our district is requiring that teachers three years and under turn in daily lesson plans (the fancy ones with all the components of a "proper" lesson plan). Now, I have to say this is awesome to have, but it is absolutely time consuming. I can't plan too far ahead because I usually plan way too much to fit in and need to carry it over to the next week. Anyway, it really has been busy, but I have had some requests for my usual blogs with things students say and updates from class.

My High School Success class is an elective for students who need a little extra motivation for succeeding in high school. I have to say, I seem to have pretty motivated kids in it already, and after asking a few, they said they picked it as their elective because they didn't know what else to pick. In any case, it's pretty fun to have them. It's my smallest class with 23 so far and we get to do fun things like watch movies and talk. Six of the students I have later in the day in my English 9 class, so that's even better. Every Friday, we do a current event. So they bring something to share with the class that they read the past week. Now, there is one boy (who is also in my English 9 class), who is absolutely hilarious. He's very polite and sweet, and has the most hilarious personality. He's always involved in class, and on this one day a girl was sharing her article.

Girl- "So, my article is about the show "So You Think You Can Dance." It's important to me because I want to be a dancer and I want to maybe be on this show one day."

Mrs E-"That sounds like a good plan."

Funny Boy-"So do you dance now?"

Girl-"Oh my gosh, yes! I practice a lot, and I think I can do it if I get involved and stuff and get good grades"

Funny Boy-"Oh AMEN sister, AMEN. You do it!"

Really, I've never heard a freshman boy say that, and the whole class just burst out laughing.

At school, we are also required to chaperon two events. Both Cami and I signed up for the same events so we could get it done. We chaperoned a freshmen dance and then the regular high school dance. So, at the dance last night (the entire school one), Cami and I were manning the water table ($1 per water bottle). Of course, as chaperons, we are required to also watch that everyone is being appropriate around us. And, of course, there was a couple who payed $10 to get into the dance to then sit on two chairs and make out. Of course. It's disgusting really-he kept kissing her neck. Ugh. Anyway, Cami finally got fed up and walked over, and of course they get all defensive and mad. When Cami came back, then glared at us for-NO JOKE-an hour. They then decided to move to the floor and make out there, but, yes, we could still see them. So this time, I got up and went and got an Administrator to get involved (because really what else could we do). They then finally stopped but they spent the next hour of the dance glaring at us. We were pretty sure our cards would be keyed when we went outside. What's hilarious is that they think they are getting revenge on us. We had two of our favorite students walk over to buy water, and our conversation went like this:

Mrs. E-"Hey, watch out for those two kids making out over there."

Lindsay-"Ew! Wait, you mean the ones glaring at you over here?"

Mrs. E-"Yep, those two. They're so pissed."

Other girl-"Did you go yell at them?"

Mrs. W-"I did. I told them they're being gross and to knock it off."

Other girl-"Hahaaa! They're totally staring at you!!!"

Anyway, the girls were amused by it. So we pointed the gross couple out to everyone who bought water. So funny.

We also had a fellow guy teacher sitting with us, and he seemed amused by our antics at the table.

Mrs. E-"K, 2 o'clock, flirting alert."

Ms. W-"Wait, girl drama, just entered the bathroom."

Mrs. E-"Is that the girl who pushed her boyfriend 20 minutes ago?"

Ms. W-"Yes. Except over there he's now with one of my other students."

Mr. C-"Wait, what? Where do you see all this?"

Mrs. E-"He's with someone new already?"

Ms W-"Yes, she's in my class."

Mrs. E-"That was fast. Wait, here comes the mediator (a little blond girl going from the girls bathroom to the guy-probably attempting to help resolve the issue)"

Ms W-"I think it's over."

Mrs. E-"Flirting girl just escalated to touching the arm. Boy is texting. I don't think it's going well."

Mr C-"Wait, where, what?!"

You have to make your own fun. I'm not sure what the guy teacher though of us, but I think we had fun. Teenagers are hilarious when you observe them in their natural habitat (ie cafeteria school dances)