The stench of home

I am sitting in a place with free, fast wifi, so you know I didn't make it to the mainland. Being in Hong Kong isn't something I'm gonna complain about.

I spent the flight pushing a large guy off me. Consider my build, and imagine what he must look like. So after 16 hours of him oozing into myspace, I'm rather stinky. I missed being on the last bus to the mainland, so some lucky folk dodged a bullet there. I wouldn't want to share a bus with me for 5 hours.

So, tomorrow I'm off to Zhongshan. No idea when I'll post again, but hopefully it will be next week. I think I'll be wanting internet access soon

in passing

I still am in the USA. I (perhaps foolishly) believe I will be in china soon.
Voted today. Give it a shot, particularly if we agree on most issues.

that's that

Back after a few days off. And we're now done. Time to frcye myself to wii, drunkenness, the china trip and sleeping I til noon. Check back in August.

uhhhhhhhh

I'm at home, laying on the couch enjoying my new favorite drink: nyquil. I am very happy that most days I didn't want to go to work, I sucked it up and went, because I may take the last 6 days off. This lung infection is no joke.

I'm also pretty glad I went to work the last two days. Yesterday was a field trip to clean up a beach. I was not in charge, just tagging along as a chaperone. They did a crummy job, but apparently that was expected. Afterwards, there was a barbecue and basketball, when they rediscovered their energy. It's not often I can watch them just act like normal teenagers.
Today, we went to a small art gallery, where they were very well behaved.we then went for Chinese food, which was great. They ate weird things, tried to use chopsticks, and tried to use Chinese words the waiters and I taught them. We went to a park, and they played ball again, before we went home. Two kids had tried to leave (a story that is long and makes me far too angry to tell), but were brought back safely. Prior to that, it was one of my favorite days with them, despite the illness. If I don't improve enough next week to return to work, it's a great end to the school year.
Hopefully, no one notices the missing paperwork, or it's forgotten in the fall. Cough cough cough.naptime.

eww

I seem to have some sort of lung infection. When you combine that with the mold that infests this building, you get a very ill teacher. Hopefully, I'll make it through the day, finish entering missing attendance, enter grades, update goals, and spend the next two days on field trips. Or I'll miss most of the last week. Whatever

near the end

Only two weeks left. The last few have been somewhat eventful.
Prom was last weekend. The kids were great. One had a seizure, and I spent 3 or 4 hours in the hospital with him. Poor guy.
I got my clasepom back. We're reading Our America, and most really like it. They believe they've found a way of outwitting me. They can read the book and discuss it until the bell, and then it's too late for me to make them write. I can't say I mind. There has been some writing still.
Between their love of discussion and the amount of time I spent out of the classroom doing office work, they had very few written asignments this quarter. They tend to be happy about that, but it really bugs me. I think they're being cooperative now in part because they were bored. Next year, I don't expect this problem.
Finally, the lsc chose a new principal. Not our AP. But someone new. We'll have to see how that goes. I've often felt our AP was far tougher on me than on most others, but still respect her immensely and hope she stays. Speculation is that she will leave, which means two new prole in the top two spots. All I really want is to be left alone to teach, to have an aide who does his/her job, and to know that we have a system for disciplining students. As usual, the students have been saying and doing weird stuff. I've just been slackinh off about Blogging any of it. Next time...

time goes by

I've been in the office a lot lately, so I've been very bored. I'm back in a classroom tomorrow. My classroom is the in-school suspension room, at least for now, so there are issues. Always issues...